Barnard Professor of Economics David Weiman
on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
Barnard Professor of Economics David Weiman appeared on July 31 on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show.
Professor Weiman, the Alena Wells Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics, discussed life after prison and employment prospects after a prison term. Since the late 1970s, the number of Americans in prison has increased dramatically. As a result, there are more ex-prisoners entering the job market than ever before.
In a new book, Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America, Professor Weiman and Michael Stoll, also a guest on the program, investigate the many obstacles to re-entering the job market that ex-prisoners face and how this affects the likelihood that they will end up back in prison.
For more on this subject and the book, click here.
