Claim: Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
Fact-check: Labor Secretary Thomas Perez weighs incarceration's role in inner-city Baltimore's bleak job picture
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2015-05-15T00:00:00