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  March 27, 2017 NPR

  College classes in maximum security: ‘it gives you meaning’

  More than 650,000 [incarcerated individuals] are released every year in the U.S., but no federal agency tracks the unemployment rate for this population. Experts say low reading and technological literacy, as well as reluctance among employers to hire formerly [incarcerated individuals], means many drop out of the labor force altogether.

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  March 22, 2017 Forbes

  A foodpreneur uses a commercial kitchen and local CrossFit gyms to grow a Paleo startup

  Another amazing thing about working at a professional commercial kitchen is that they are involved in helping others by bringing in interns from The Fortune Society.

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  March 22, 2017 Tablet Magazine

  David Rothenberg’s Fortune

  Rabbi, tzaddik, shaman: there may be something of all of these in David Rothenberg, who was celebrated Feb. 24 at an “Evening With David” on the roof of the Castle, a beautiful five-story neo-Gothic structure in Harlem that is run as a halfway house by the Fortune Society for 60 [formerly incarcerated individuals].

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  March 17, 2017 Spike

  The Kalief Browder story

  Kalief Browder will not be forgotten. Fortune Executive Vice President, Stanley Richards, and Case Manager, Ismael Nazario, are featured in the six-part documentary, TIME: The Kalief Browder Story.

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  March 16, 2017 Next City

  What dip in high school credential means for NYC employment

  Stanley Richards [Fortune Excecutive Vice President] was one of thousands upon thousands of people who took and passed the General Educational Development (GED) exam in New York state. It put him on the path to earning a college degree while still behind bars.

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