{"id":40011,"date":"2017-05-22T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/?p=40011"},"modified":"2017-05-22T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:55:35","slug":"news-from-the-ford-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/2017\/05\/22\/news-from-the-ford-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Ford Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fordfoundation\/how-the-tax-code-drives-inequality-why-migration-is-here-to-stay-and-more-1635053?e=1a9c6efffa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Program for Formerly Incarcerated People<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We support fair-chance hiring policies, and believe that a history of convictions shouldn\u2019t disqualify someone from employment. But what does that look like in practice? In creating a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative, we found some answers.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fordfoundation\/how-the-tax-code-drives-inequality-why-migration-is-here-to-stay-and-more-1635053?e=1a9c6efffa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #555555;font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif\">What\u2019s your \u201cAmerican Dream Score\u201d?<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>If you work hard and play by the rules, then you should be able to get ahead\u2014at least according to the fabled American Dream. Now, a new tool gives us a way to examine the many factors that have helped or hindered us, and to spark honest conversations about the role of inequality and opportunity in our lives.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fordfoundation\/how-the-tax-code-drives-inequality-why-migration-is-here-to-stay-and-more-1635053?e=1a9c6efffa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The new rules for our faster, tech-driven future<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In their eye-opening new book <em>Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future<\/em>, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe lay out a set of clear principles for navigating our age of rapid technological change\u2014and making sure we don\u2019t make inequality worse in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program for Formerly Incarcerated People We support fair-chance hiring policies, and believe that a history of convictions shouldn\u2019t disqualify someone from employment. But what does that look like in practice? In creating a professional development program for graduates of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/2017\/05\/22\/news-from-the-ford-foundation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40015,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions\/40015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/researchnewsinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}