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Gavin Newsom: “2 to 1 dropout rates, you see rates, you know, deaths of…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 53:56

You're 100%. If you look at college graduation, it's going to be 2 to 1 at the UCs and CSUs here in the next five years. Women, which is fantastic. But 2 to 1 dropout rates, you see rates, you know, deaths of despair, suicide rates. If you go to a morgue, you know, five bodies, four of them are mentioned, men from suicide. And, and it's all these major issues that are shaping things in more ways and more days. And I don't think again, our party, my party's doing enough to address it's. (53:56–54:09)

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Asserts that dropout rates and deaths of despair, including suicides, disproportionately affect men, with four out of five suicide victims being men.

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