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Incarceration is disproportionately concentrated among those with low levels of education and particularly so among african-americans. what my research shows is that when you hear things like the unemployment rate is 7.8% or the high school dropout rate among young blacks has declined, those data don't include people living in institutions. it's a household based survey. we have been collecting data in the same way since the depression, and as a consequence we've misrepresented progress. >> becky, i want to ask you about unemployment because the recession has been hard on everyone, but particu...

Incarcerati incarceration. our next guest says once behind bars, people become invisible thus concealing the true tengts of racial disadvantage in america. with us now is becky petit and the author of "invisible men." welcome, professor. >> thank you for having me. >> you say that we're not counting the incarcerated when we look at society, when we make a portrait of society. what are we missing when we do that? >> i'd like to take you back to january 20th, 2009, the date of president obama's inauguration. on that day there was hope that we were becoming a post-racial society. myrie sear resea...