Saturday, April 27, 2013

Economy just above a stall, says EPI

The Economic Policy Institute reports that the U.S. economy is growing "just above stall speed."

This accentuates the cost to the economy of millions of Americans in prison and with criminal convictions who can't get jobs and can't help grow the economy. We have the world's highest rate of imprisonment. We sentence at least a million persons a year to a drug conviction of some kind, and they bleed out of the workforce. They are forced out of schools.  This has been a cumulative problem for a decade.


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