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DoorDash will reconsider how it treats prospective hires with criminal convictions after reaching a settlement with New York’s attorney general’s office. Plus, Volunteers of America-Greater New York says it might be forced to reduce the number of new backpacks it distributes to students living in shelters before the start of school. And finally, WNYC's data reporter, Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky, crunched twenty years worth of data since the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act was passed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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