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The United States’ current economic expansion and low unemployment has made it easier for traditionally hard-to-employ workers to find employment. Businesses have begun to partner with community colleges and nonprofit organizations to train and recruit these types of workers. Although the improvement for groups with historically high unemployment has only been concentrated in certain areas, economists are optimistic about sustained job growth in America. This opens up the potential for the hard-to-employ (e.g. people with criminal records, disabilities, low education, etc.) to find jobs. Employers in metro areas, otherwise facing a job shortage, are more open to hiring workers who historically not have been highly sought out.