What can we as citizens do to help get felons a job?

This is a very touchy subject for me. I am a convicted felon without a job. My conviction was over 14 years ago, was released from prison 11 1/2 years ago, was able to get a minimum wage job for a short period of time, but lost it when they did a company-wide background check. My point is this: there is a statute of limitations on most felonies(excluding murder/manslaughter) of no more than 7 years, less for most catagories, so there should also be some kind of limitation as to how far back companies can look into our past. Most people who made a mistake in their lives have paid for that mistake, either by serving time jail/prison or community service as well as probation and/or parole. We have learned from our mistakes, grown from them, made us better people for our past indisgretions, but it seems as though no matter how much we’ve been put through, we continually get knocked backwards. That will only wind up hurting us in the future. Instead of people saying ‘ok, they’ve payed for what they did, let’s give them a shot a working back into society’ they turn their back on us and say ‘once a criminal always a criminal’ and that is just not the truth for 98-99% of those who chose the wrong path. By turning your backs on us, it makes us feel inferior to everybody else and that in turn leads the good people that have tried to change their lives for the better back to the wrong path. All because nobody is willing to take a chance on those of us who have gone through hell and high water to change the way we think, the actions that we do, the better people we have become, and quite possibly could be your next best friend. We somehow need Congress to look at this situation and create new laws that will limit how far back employers, or anybody for that matter can look into someones past. I am not the same person I was 14 years ago when I went into prison. I learned how to change and make myself a better person than what I was before going to prison. I think that laws should be set somewhere between 7 to 10 years. I’d say that each and everyone of you who reads tis post is not exactly the same person that you were 10 years ago, so it seems to be the logical choice as to a good choice in the length of time that anyone checking someones background should be allowed to go. So, contact your Senators and Congressmen to get this pushed into law.