Saturday, February 13, 2016

The Incarceration Industry – 2 graphs

Click here to access article by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog

We're number one! Again! We are number one spending our national treasure on military weapons, and we are also number one in the world for locking up our citizens! We are truly an exceptional nation--who can argue against that? I wonder how many other ways that we are exceptional: percent of population that are homeless? percent of population that wants but cannot afford health care? percent of population that wants to go to university but can't afford it?