44% of Americans are in these circumstances.
$400 is a lot of money for any of them....for a fine for a tail light out on a car. They are lucky to even have a bad car to struggle on...
$400 is the annual income for many millions of foreign folks looking for better wages, for your wages.
$400 is a lot of money for any of them....for a fine for a tail light out on a car. They are lucky to even have a bad car to struggle on...
$400 is the annual income for many millions of foreign folks looking for better wages, for your wages.
This great debtors' prison heritage was not caused by globalization, but it will not get better within it, only progressively worse and worse and worse.
Prison labor camps, and offshoring camps, is another likely area for further expansion.
The poor already pay for their own incarceration (To what purpose? Keeping that penal system funded).
Also middle class property owners usually pay a disproportionate share, in property taxes and assessments, of local jails' costs, which frankly don't return them a dime in economic value, or a better quality of life, in fact the opposite.
I could spend a long time narrating only some aspects of the situation here, both in the criminal system and the economic system.
The poor already pay for their own incarceration (To what purpose? Keeping that penal system funded).
Also middle class property owners usually pay a disproportionate share, in property taxes and assessments, of local jails' costs, which frankly don't return them a dime in economic value, or a better quality of life, in fact the opposite.
I could spend a long time narrating only some aspects of the situation here, both in the criminal system and the economic system.
Why bother, really?
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