City to pay ex-offender wages as re-entry program incentive
“Employers are having trouble finding employees,” said Ken Moody, executive assistant to Mayor Jim Strickland, seen here on Sept. 8. “We’re saying to businesses, ‘give these men and women a chance.’ ” (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian file)
The City of Memphis is using $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding over the next three years to increase the incentives for employers hiring those coming out of prison.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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