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Michiganders with criminal records often face barriers to securing jobs or other opportunities even long after their sentence is served. This is both a challenge to racial equity efforts—especially for Black men, who are more likely to be sentenced and incarcerated than others—and limits former offenders’ ability to contribute economically to...

“Do you remember back in March, when school announced it was closing for three weeks?” I asked my wife recently. Obviously, few of us had been pessimistic enough about the protracted impact of Covid-19 on our lives. Ubiquitous work-from-home has been promised since the '90s; take all such forecasts with...