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Increased Voter Turnout Myth: Prisons Dramatically Disenfranchise Young Black Men

When incarceration rates are accounted for, about the same percent of black males voted in 2008 as in 1980.

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The Invisible Population: What the Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Show

Unemployment's down, but accounting for penal growth, the black-white employment gap's significantly wider than it has been since 1980.

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What You Won't Hear in the Presidential Debates: Facing the 'School-to-Prison' Pipeline

Most national surveys don't account for prison inmates, a fact that results in a misrepresentation of the progress black Americans are making.