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This bakery makes a point of hiring workers with a criminal record

Rubicon Bakers is designed to give people a second chance. Deantee James spent around a year looking for a job before finding his current position as a baker in Richmond, California. “I was putting in applications and nothing was coming through,” he says. James has a criminal record, which makes it more difficult to find work; one study found that black men with a record only got called back for an interview 5% of the time.

 

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