claim: due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
author: thomas perez
evidence_1: jan 1, 2008 ... according to its most simple definition, racial discrimination refers to unequal ... a  2001 survey, for example, found that more than one-third of blacks and ... of their  avoidance of young, inner-city black men in their search for workers. ......  currently, nearly one out of three young black men will spend time in ...
evidence_2: aug 11, 2015 ... the city of ferguson, at the time a black-majority city with a white-majority ... we  were unable to get complete data from new york police. ... said that due to "over- incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce.  today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce.".
evidence_3: apr 20, 2015 ... across the country, hundreds of thousands of black men are missing from  everyday life. ... for every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black  men. .... to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. ...  of the situation is this: more than one out of every six black men who today ...
evidence_4: two other publications in this series, race, ethnicity, and the health of  americans and ..... in 1994, one in three young black men between the ages of  20 and.
evidence_5: apr 28, 2011 ... why ever fewer low-skilled american men have jobs. ... america has a smaller  share of prime-age men in the workforce (ie, in a job or seeking ... another is that  the recession fell heavily on poorly educated young people. ... points out that one  black man in three spends some time in prison; for those without ...