The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70)

by Robert J. Gordon

recent study showed that between 1979 and 2009, the cumulative percentage of white male high school dropouts who had been in prison rose from 3.8 percent to 28.0 percent. For blacks over the same time interval, the percentage who had been in prison rose from 14.7 percent to 68.0 percent.