Becky Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American Progress
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The Impact of the Size of the Prison Population on Social Data
There's been this massive increase in incarceration and while there's one in a hundred american adults is incarcerated. Those with low levels of education are more likely to be in prison or jail than our whites or Hispanics. The U.S. unemployment rate doesn't include the incarcerated population but it does when we look at other things such as crime, he says.
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