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The "experts" were predicting a 7.5 million person increase in unemployment in May. That would have brought the unemployment rate to 19.8%. Instead, 2.5 million net jobs were created and unemployment FELL to 13.3%.

A recent study found that most forfeitures in Arizona involve small sums of money—56% were for less than $1,000, and only 20% of defendants contesting forfeiture had attorneys. This means that the system is mostly used to target individuals, not large drug cartels or big-time criminals as forfeiture’s defenders claim.

The study also found that although the government almost always wins forfeiture cases, less than half of forfeitures are tied to a criminal conviction