In a message dated 98-03-14 11:56:56 EST, Doug writes:
<< I thought I was pretty unshockable, but a recent report from the U.S.
Bureau of Justice Statistics shocked me. Based on present incarceration
stats, a black male born today faces a 1 in 4 lifetime chance of doing
prison time. Prison, wh
MScoleman wrote:
>The point of adding in the prison population isn't the great absolute rise in
>unemployment, but the huge proportional rise in unemployment for African
>American and Hispanic men. Since the vast majority of prison inmates are
>AFrican American and Hispanic men, the inclusion o
Quoth Doug, in shock:
> I thought I was pretty unshockable, but a recent report from the U.S.
> Bureau of Justice Statistics shocked me. Based on present incarceration
> stats, a black male born today faces a 1 in 4 lifetime chance of doing
> prison time. Prison, where you go after conviction for
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Sorry Maggie, for being anonymous but I am lazy about signing my name.
(ie Paul Meyer)
I was interested in how one should interpret the macro-economic stats given
how central they are to selling the "American model." (I mean the triumphalism
of the business press is nauseating). It seems to me,
In a message dated 98-03-12 23:06:59 EST, you write:
<< Even if you did throw the prison population into the stats, how much
would effect the official unemployment rate? 1 or 2 per cent?
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The person who sent this comment didn't sign their message, and their email
address was no clue -- howev
