Well done on what you've achieved. I hope it gets new energy and lives
on. At 68 I guess you're not "doing it for the money". A decent soul
entrenched in a seemingly impossible battle against socio-political
decay is inspiring.
As other commenters have said, it isn't just people with criminal
records who get marginalised. Members of my family experienced social
exclusion due to PTSD following military service. Many vets come back
with similar issues as ex-prisoners. What happened to those who served
in Vietnam and Korea is shameful. But there are also people who are
simply atypical, low IQ, old, queer, disabled, or the wrong skin
colour. We have a very, very long way to go to become the society we
imagine ourselves to be, one where everyone doesn't just "get by" but
prospers, and feels wanted and fulfilled in life.
I know it will be unpopular to say here, but amongst all nations the
USA seems particularly brutal with regard to its social exclusion, and
I think it will only ever be solved from the political level, not
bottom-up. At 68 you're still a spring chicken for politics, so I'd go
into that if I were you, as a single-issue candidate on "jobs for the
marginalised". Judging by the size of the US "excluded population"
you'd win a landslide. :)