Today, Bold Vision, a unique initiative that aims to create a thriving future for youth across Los Angeles County, released its 2024 Mid-Year Report. The report highlights the destructive inequities that keep youth from living up to their full potential and offers a roadmap for the social justice movement to identify key areas for focusing programs that will benefit youth moving forward.
Black, Indigenous, Latiné, Asian, and Pacific Islander youth throughout Los Angeles County face precarious futures due to dire inequities and injustices caused by the systemic oppression and disinvestment carried out by our public officials. Key takeaways from the report include:
- Almost two out of three Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth have a hard time affording rent, and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) youth experience this more than other racial groups.
- BIPOC youth are arrested at higher rates than their White counterparts in LA County, with Black youth being eight times more likely to be arrested.
- Nearly 75 percent of Black and Latiné youth do not receive a living wage, making it extraordinarily difficult to meet their basic needs and highly impacting their quality of life.
Our leaders must foster positive youth development, create healthy built environments, and develop alternatives to the harmful systems and policies that are standing in the way of BIPOC youth thriving. The data found in our Bold Vision Midterm Report can stir them to action and help them move toward that better future.
