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Ten years ago, Ohio prohibited questions about past criminal convictions on job applications for public sector employees. Now ...

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New Ban the Box bills in NY, KY, MS, and OK aim to delay criminal history screening. Here’s how 2026 could shift compliance ...

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MCPS and Board of Education headquarters in Rockville. Credit: Elia Griffin Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has cleared its background check backlog of nearly 10,600 school-based staff, ...

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Remember classified ads? They may have been supplanted by digital job boards, but for much of the country’s history, they were one of the main sources to go to find work and workers. And they reveal a ...