Hiring ex-convicts: Between a rock and a lawsuit

IN 2001 Devah Pager, then a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, enlisted a group of 23-year-old male college students to pose as applicants for entry-level jobs advertised online and in a Milwaukee newspaper.



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