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Record highs, housiing recovering, unemployment falling but much of black america left behind. >> what we see everyday is people struggling to put food on the table. >> reporter: at 13.7%, african-american unemployment is more than double the rate for whites. martin allen is trying to change that in his low income brooklyn community after turning his own life around. >> i was in prison, finishing up a sentence. i saw my stepson come through the same prison walls that i was in. right then, something went off in my head to say enough is enough. >> reporter: he started his own construction compan...

Their crimes range from robbery to murder. the bioin at least one of them reads squeaky clean, fails to mention he was locked up for murder. we reached out for a comment, but she has not called us back. >> steve: maybe if one of the ex-cons did, they could as well. >> brian: if she's used to make one phone call, maybe we'll be it. >> steve: meanwhile, you're out of a job, i guarantee it. >> the way you look. i guarantee it. >> steve: how many times have you seen these commercials? that guy, the founder of men's warehouse, has been fired! george zimmer was the public face of the clothing suppor...

Of rehabilitating felons at all. >> alisyn: important point she has paid her debt to society. she was in prison for 22 years. they need doo need to be employed. people who get out of prison in this country can't just become indigent and homeless. they do need to be employed. he was saying she has turned her life around. there is something to redemption if that's what she is teaching. >> she can work at wendy's like most ex-cons or do landscaping. the idea that she would get a job at an ivy league college with massive amounts of federal grants by the way pretty over the top. because, when they ...

Journal." be sure to check in this weekend when he hosts the journal editorial report, saturday, 2:00 park m eastern on fox news channel. jenna: coming up next from jail to a job. ex-cons learning new skills to help them succeed after a life behind bars. a closer look at an inspiring program coming up in a live report. and beer is flowing across the country today, and it's not just because it's friday, people, it's for a whole other reason. our next guest says the craft beer boom in this country is an excellent example about what happens when you lower taxes and strip away regulations. jon wil...

Crime was reported. investigators are an is looking fingerprints and dna evidence found inside the home and they're talking to ex-cons in the area. >> we want to report that the members the county sheriff's office, california state patrol and sheriff's department completed contacted many cases searching all known sex offenders and paroles in the area where this crime took place. >> reporter: yesterday the coroner listed her cause of death as shock and hemorrhaging from multiple stab wounds. there was no evidence that she had been sexually assaulted. leila was found by her 12-year-old brother w...