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Title: Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility
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Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility
Pew Center on the States, Economic Mobility Project Report. Washington, DC: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010.
Also: http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP_Incarceration.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Pew Charitable Trust
Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Economics of Discrimination; Economics of Minorities; Economics, Demographic; Educational Attainment; Incarceration/Jail; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Racial Differences; Social Environment

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Policy Report.
This report is based on research by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit. The report is jointly authored by the Economic Mobility Project and the Public Safety Performance Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. With this report, our inquiry focuses on the intersection of incarceration and mobility, fields that might at first seem unrelated. We ask two questions: To what extent does incarceration create lasting barriers to economic progress for formerly incarcerated people, their families and their children? What do these barriers mean for the American Dream, given the explosive growth of the prison population?

The findings in this report should give policy makers reason to reflect. The price of prisons in state and federal budgets represents just a fraction of the overall cost of incarcerating such a large segment of our society. The collateral consequences are tremendous and far-reaching, and as this report illuminates with fresh data and analysis, they include substantial and lifelong damage to the ability of former inmates, their families and their children to earn a living wage, move up the income ladder and pursue the American Dream.

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Pew Charitable Trust. "Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility." Pew Center on the States, Economic Mobility Project Report. Washington, DC: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010.