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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by michaelmrose on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:08PM (#15195236)
Well in certain parts of the nation you used to be able to own black people and derive income from the fruits of their labor along with the proceeds of legal corruption sometimes called campaign contributions.

Inconveniently they get freed and you now have to pay them, worse they vote against you and without sufficient votes you are no longer viable and liable to lose the corruption money.

If only you could shake down the annoying population regularly and you know put them in their place wherein their place is a prison cell wherein you can work them for free again and take away their inconvenient vote.

Disenfranchisement has always been a tool as long as voting has been a thing in America. Its only a bold claim if you missed the last few hundred years.

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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by darawk on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:49PM (#15195580)
That has nothing to do with the fact that a felony conviction makes it difficult to get a job, though.
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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by unpwn on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:16PM (#15196281)
It kinda does, because if your unemployable, your more likely to commit crime and go to jail again
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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by darawk on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:35PM (#15196428)
Of course. What I meant is that his post does not make the case that, with respect to employment difficulty, there is any deliberate conspiracy.
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Re:Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men ... by macintux on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:10PM (#15197409)
I think the powder vs crack disparity speaks volumes. Guess which type of cocaine resulted in felonies at 1/100th the mass of the other?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/28/crack-powder-senten...

So, the law may not make much difference in whether employers take felons, but it makes a huge difference in who is a felon.

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