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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by andrekandre on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:06PM (#35073339) 

  > Consider something like 1/3 of Americans have a criminal history.
really? not as in traffic tickets, but actual conviction of a crime?
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:33PM (#35073658)
No. Not sure sure exactly where it started, but it gets attributed to Andrew Cuomo often enough, citing the 1 in 3 number. That comes from FBI statistics, which define a criminal record to include arrests.

Here is a discussion: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuo...

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