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This study provides insight into the social mobility patterns of Black emerging adults 22 to 29 years of age in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. This research specifically looks at educational attainment, employment, and income as factors for upward social mobility.

Trends in homicide rates for emerging adults in Massachusetts was examined using data from the Massachusetts Violent Death Reporting System, Injury Surveillance Program, and Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Data for police killings was drawn from Mapping Police Violence which currently represents one of the most comprehensive databases of police killing victims in the U.S. Data from Analyze Boston was used to examine rates of police contacts that involved non-fatal police contacts (frisk or searches) among emerging adults in Boston, Massachusetts. Data for suicide deaths and mechanism of suicide were drawn from the Massachusetts Violent Death Reporting System, Injury Surveillance Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Counts of Emergency Department visits for nonfatal drug overdoses in Massachusetts were drawn from the Massachusetts Inpatient Hospital Discharge, Outpatient Observation Stay, and Outpatient Emergency Department Discharge Databases, via the Center for Health Information and Analysis.