>>Casualties of the war on drugs & crimes are coming home. We have
>>to stop the war _and_ create a society in which ex-convicts can
>>find good jobs, or else we can never diminish racism, much less
>>abolish it. Yoshie
>>
>>***** New York Times 15 March 2001
>>
>>Flood of Ex-Convicts Finds Job Market Tight
>>
>>By PETER T. KILBORN
>>
>>NEW ORLEANS - After a decade-long surge of people into the nation's
>>prisons, sociologists and economists are warning of a new challenge
>>for the labor force: the steady stream of people coming out.
>>
>>The prison population soared in the 1990's, to 2 million from 1.2
>>million, and now tens of thousands of inmates are leaving prison each
>>year, having completed their sentences or been granted parole.
>>Though these ex-convicts are under pressure to find jobs and rejoin
>>society, labor experts say that many have become the untouchables of
>>the work force....
>>*****
>
>Perhaps you could ask Brad what the Pareto optimal solution to this
>problem is,
>given the exogenous constraint of current obsessions with fiscal discipline by
>the neoliberal state.
>
>Ian
I have a poetic answer to the Pareto Optimality fetishist:
***** Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.
Carl Sandburg *****
Yoshie
