Chief Prognosticator

Is 1% Big?

That depends what the 1% is of. Your annual salary? Then probably not so big. How about the U.S. adult population? Sure that’s 2,319,258 people! So what is this all about? Well that’s the number in a new CNN.com article:

Report: 1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars

That’s significant because it represents 1 in every 100 adults. It’s the first time in modern U.S. history that the 1% threshold has been breached. What can be worse than that? Easy — the report that 1 in 9 adult black men are behind bars. That’s really sad and a shame for the entire country to bear.