thank you for letting his participate in this forum for the impact of the criminal justice system on fulhamlso the co-author of the paper who is with the justice policy institute. together reagin our best to document the labor market to make concrete recommendations for reform to clear the path of full employment per in the few minutes that i have i will have the key findings. first most people though it has been widely reported that over the last several decades over 40 years we have seen a huge rise in the incarceration rates over the last 30 or 40 years. we incarcerate 2.four hour million people in the prisoner jail and another 5 million are on the supervision or parole or probation that is over 7 million. and every year the cost to the taxpayer exceeds to under $50 billion. given these numbers it is not surprising that large numbers of people have a criminal record to i undermine the job prospects. with 70 million adults nearly one out of three you have a serious misdemeanor or felony or restaurant conviction bedded is especially severe for opera but according to "the new york times" po