As federal and state governments in the U.S. dramatically increased the number and share of their populations in jails and prisons, they also abandoned the New Deal goals of full employment and decent-paying jobs for all. The harms caused by both policy changes fell especially heavily on black communities and their young people. Ian Robinson (Faculty, STP Program, RC) will discuss how the two trends relate and provide an overview of the unemployment levels and pay and working conditions facing black youth today. Erica Clemmons, an organizer for the United Food and Commercial Workers in Chicago, and leader in the Young Workers movement, will speak about this movemen, the links it has built with community activists involved in Black Lives Matter mobilizations around the country, and how they aim to change both bad dynamics through their organizing work.