New Data Tool To Track Links Between Incarceration, Economic Mobility
Posted by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity on May 19, 2026
The Vera Institute of Justice last month published the first national data tool with a primary focus on the intersection between incarceration and economic outcomes. Despite the long-term impact on the economic well-being of millions of people in the United States, there are few data tools that track incarceration and economic outcomes across the country—and even fewer tools that make this data easily accessible.
For this Spotlight Exclusive we spoke with Vera Research Director Jim Parsons about the new tool, which he said “fills a gap because there are data sets on incarceration, there are data sets on economic outcomes but there’s very little available which lets you look at those two different sets of trends in one place.”
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