> And by age 28, 41 percent of white men born into low-income families had criminal convictions, compared with 49 percent of the black men from similar backgrounds.
Both of those numbers are insanely high. Especially when you realize that in the modern era of online background checks, their future employment options practically drop to zero at that point. By 28 close to half of the men from low income families were essentially unhireable for the rest of their lives. How is that sustainable for a country as a whole?