Using local-level data on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and incarceration at the commuting zone level from 1950 to the present. We find that labor markets with higher levels of inequality experienced larger increases in overall incarceration, and that relative rates of poverty play a key role in explaining the differential effects of mass incarceration across race. Areas where white poverty...

Rental prices in Colorado are unusually high in terms of their share of renters' income. Accelerating rents in metropolitan areas of Colorado area driving force behind the widening rental price gap between the US and Colorado. Colorado potentially faces a constrained entrepreneurial environment due to these rising rent burdens.