For decades, incarceration and unemployment have been the two biggest impediments to the Black community. They are interlinked; the poverty-to-prison pipeline has been well established (one study found that incarcerated people had a median annual income that was 41% less than non-incarcerated people of similar ages). And formerly incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate that is higher than the U.S. unemployment rate has ever been in history.
Blacks are disproportionately represented in prisons and among the unemployed. In 2017, Blacks made up 12 percent of the U.S. adult population but represented a third of the prison population. And today, the gap between black and white unemployment is the widest it has been in five years.
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