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The commencement marked a key milestone in a journey that is a testament to their hard work and their refugee parents insistence that they place a high value on educational opportunities.
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SALT LAKE CITY Utah is a place that has nation-leading levels of social capital, family stability and social mobility.
But it is also a place that is becoming increasingly diverse and has wide disparities in education, housing and health outcomes between most minority groups and whites.
The effort to close those gaps took a big step forward Thursday with the release of a landmark data book on race, ethnicity and sex authored by the University of Utah s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute s data team.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he s been in many discussions about Utah s strengths and challenges but we didn t have much firm data to back up the anecdotes and assumptions.