Incarceration mask inequalities between black and whites because such a large population of African American men are incarcerated in the prison system that it because a racial inequality. According to the book when someone is incarcerated they are not counted as unemployment and do not fall into the unemployment rate. As the book stated individuals that are typically becoming incarcerated are uneducated and are in low paying jobs . When they go to prison they are no longer counted in wage statistics. This alters the statics making it look like the average wage of workers has increased. According to the book the wage gap between young black and white men is approx. 20 percent and would be larger if individuals that are in the prison system
