http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/business/25offender.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Job%20Placement,%20With%20a%20Record&st=cse
The link above will take you directly to the article in which I'm blogging about.
In Tuesday's paper, "The New York Times", there was an article on how it's hard to find jobs for ex-convicts. I spoke to many people about this article to find out their interpretation of the article and how they feel about it. The majority felt that it was a motivational article and they were proud that the government is trying to do something fund programs so more ex-convicts can find employment after incarceration. I felt something totally different from everyone! When I read the entire article it seemed to be more on the negative side. The reporter of the article continuously mentioned how hard it was to find a job being an ex-convict. He also stated that the reason most ex-cons can’t find jobs is, because they go to jail three years after being releases. Is it me or isn’t that rude! What if that wasn’t the reason employers didn’t want to employ ex-cons…now that do!
Another portion of the article that captured my attention is the subtitle. It said, “States Help Find Work (and Hope) For Ex-Convicts”. I thought the subtitle was a bit sarcastic. It says they want to find hope in parenthesis, but each time something positive was mentioned something negative came to shut it down. I’m not sure if I read it wrong or I am just overly dramatic, but the language in the article seemed to be a bit questioning! It is possible that the article was written this way to pull people in and hopefully get the funding that is needed, but I don't think that was the right way to go about it.
