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Becky Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American Progress

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The Effect of Time Out of the Labor Force on the Dropout Rate

As the labor economist to me from my old days as a labor economist when I was a little more was more narrowly focused one of the things that labor economists look at is time out of the labor force and its effect on your skill level. When people leave the labor force either voluntary or involuntarily and then you get arrested and you're spending a few years in jail so it's not so good for your way trade when you come out. Even if there was no stigma if you didn't have a problem explaining that you weren't working for three years or you were making license plates yeah whatever you could do before if you were in the labor market obviously has decreased and your skill set's kind of

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