Economists worried that people are dropping out of the work force -- Can't understand why!!

At the top of page A3 in the Sunday Washington Post (prime journalistic real estate), the report, "Vanishing workforce weighs on growth: Trend puts nation's economy at risk, experts say" gets half the story.

"Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would be worker are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth."

"...some aspects of the vanishing trend remain a mystery. Economists are struggling to explain why a large number of prime-aged African American men aren't working...declining participation to be 'disproportionately concentrated among the less educated and younger groups within the male and female populations..."

Black males are consistently arrested, punished and imprisoned for drug offenses at rates that range from three times to eleven times the white rates.

There are more than 1.5 million drug arrests each year.