Investing in Youth of Color

Joshua Johnson

Aug 10, 2012 at

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California must reduce the barriers to success for youth of color, according to a new report assessing the bleak prospects facing Latino and African-American boys and young men in the state. These groups make up a disproportionate share of prisoners, school dropouts and the unemployed. We’ll discuss the report, which offers policy ideas for improving the lives of young people of color.

More: Assembly: Calif. Must Prioritize Young Men of Color (KQED News)
More: Chronic Absence, Suspension Derail African-American Boys (News Fix)
More: Claiming the Promise of Health and Success for Boys and Men of Color – a brief of the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men
of Color in California
More: Alliance for Boys and Men of Color

Guests:

Sandre Swanson, California state assemblymember and head of the Select Subcommittee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, which released the draft report

Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, director of education law and policy at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the UC Berkeley School of Law and co-author of the report

Marc Philpart, senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity

Rigo "Bubba" Fuentes, contributed testimony to California Assembly's Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color

Michael Muscadine, contributed testimony to California Assembly's Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color

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