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The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies

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  • Cherrie Bucknor
  • Alan Barber

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Despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease in the number of former prisoners. Using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report estimates that there were between 14 and 15.8 million working-age people with felony convictions in 2014 of whom between 6.1 and 6.9 million were former prisoners.

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  • Cherrie Bucknor & Alan Barber, 2016. "The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2016-07, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
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    1. John Schmitt & Kris Warner & Sarika Gupta, 2010. "The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2010-14, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
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    JEL classification:

    • E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
    • H - Public Economics
    • K - Law and Economics
    • K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • J - Labor and Demographic Economics
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination

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