Labor market regulation and the rate of arrests, criminal charges and incarcerations raising interesting questions

According to a study I recently read, 30% of jobs in the U.S. are certified or licensed.

Another 33% of Americans, or 1 in 3, have criminal records that often, if not always, preclude them from getting a decent job.

Licensing and certification process practically excludes those who have a criminal record, so we can assume that the 33% of Americans with criminal record cannot apply for the 30% of the U.S. jobs, the ones that require licensing or certification.

That leaves 27% of Americans who neither have a criminal record nor are licensed or certified, to be employed in "regular" jobs not requiring a license or certification.

Out of those 27% an undisclosed amount may have arrest records that did not result in a conviction, but may still prevent gainful employment.

So, at the rate America, on the one hand, increasingly regulates the labor market and closes entry into increasing number of professions, and, on the other hand, at the rate the U.S. increasingly charges and incarcerates its citizens (while failing to charge and incarcerate its politicians known for having committed crimes, such as, for example, those responsible for the torture program), the country may be killing its own labor markets and efficiency of its economy.

Something the candidates for presidential elections should think about and answer to the voters as to how they are going to fix this problem.

Or, is the problem of increased incarceration artificially created, to create felony convictions in minority population and to thus block the minority votes?

And there is also this interesting issue - do courts ever think about problems with the American labor market when they "impute" income charging parents, often with a criminal record, with the obligation to get jobs which they cannot possibly get?  To keep the debtor's prisons filled?