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"Serving Up Hope"...Cooking for Change
Restaurant training helps put former inmates on a new path was the subtitle of an article published today in the Star News and can be found in it entirety on StarNewsOnline.com.  In a nutshell, Linda Quinonez started a non-profit group that takes the homeless, ex-offenders, etc. to learn a new trade in the restaurant business.  She pairs them with a successful restaurateur who teaches them the business with the end goal of owning or managing their own facility.  I thought about a situation involving a friend whose young twenty year old was caught with drugs and sentenced to six months.  The parents decided to not protect him; he went to jail.  Later, the parents said, if they would have known how impossible it was going to find a job with a convicted felon label stuck on the state website, they may have done something different.  According to the Dad, if you lie on the application, you are dishonest and you will be fired.  If you tell the truth, you never get a call, period.  How does being a convicted felon connect to real estate??
Not sure how it is in your state?  If the felon paid his price to society, at what point is ... more

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