" the precondition of unemployment has actually been shown to correlate to a wide array of problems. In the United States, between 1991 and 2000 the annual unemployment rate went from 6.8 percent to 4.8 percent. According to a study by the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), that same period produced a 42.9 percent reduction in murder, a 33.6 percent decline in violent crime, and a 28.8 percent reduction in property crime. "

― Peter Joseph , The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression