Carla Javits, President and CEO of REDF, Joins Denver Frederick
Although the unemployment rate hovers around 4%– which is good news– the number of Americans in the workforce has dropped nearly 5% in the past decade– which is not. Now, some of it is demographics, but there is more to it than that. For instance, over 21% of working-age black men did not participate in the workforce at all in 2016. The disproportionate number who have been incarcerated…