Common Folk Collective » tea party http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Prison Industrial Complex, Reagan and STEM http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/06/prison-industrial-complex-reagan-and-stem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prison-industrial-complex-reagan-and-stem http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/06/prison-industrial-complex-reagan-and-stem/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:58:06 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=4143 “Since 1980, the US prison population has grown by 790%. We have the largest prison population of any nation in the history of the world. One in three African-American men will go to jail at some point in his life. Imprisoning that many people, most of them for non-violent offenses, doesn’t come cheap, especially when you’re paying private contractors. The United States now spends $50bn on our corrections system every year.”

Guess who was elected in 1980?

Why STEM Education shouldn’t be overlooked.

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