Building the conditions to thrive: Improving well-being for men and boys of color

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The well being of men and boys of color is often examined in fragmented ways, focused on specific policy domains, markets, and industries, which can miss the structural linkages among systems that reinforce trends within education, employment, and criminal justice. Rather than treating outcomes as products of individual circumstances, there is need for a new framework that traces how structural conditions flow through domains of well being into measurable outcomes, including how long people live. On Monday, November 9, the Center for Community Uplift https://www.brookings.edu/centers/center for community uplift/ at Brookings will convene leading scholars and experts for a virtual discussion focused on the need for a new agenda and policy approach to supporting and impr…

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