matzoh_ball t1_jcd1fql wrote on March 15, 2023 at 11:18 PM

Reply to comment by elizabeth-cooper in Study shows those released under NY's bail reform laws are less likely to get rearrested by mowotlarx

Good catch! Yes, kinda makes sense that they’d only report the percentages of people who lost their job of people who had a job in the first place. Still, could be made more clear in their write up.

So, regardless of the job issues stat, it seems they base those likelihoods on the number of ppl who had a job at time of arrest:

> Over one in five participants who were employed at the time of arrest (n=1,031) were no longer employed when they were interviewed (n=219)

elizabeth-cooper t1_jcd3gjn wrote on March 15, 2023 at 11:32 PM

They don't want to be clear because the actual facts aren't nearly as bad as they're trying to make them sound.

I found what I cited above. As you can see from the chart, "arrested and not incarcerated" and "incarcerated 6 months or less" had nearly identical employment rates.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2019/employment-of-young-men-after-arrest-or-incarceration.htm