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Jody Lewen
Founder and executive director of the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison
Stop Pretending the Unemployment Problem Will Fix Itself If We Ignore It
We are, as a culture, deeply invested in not identifying with people who cannot find a job.
Jody Lewen
July 20, 2011