We need to talk about well-being: Why the study of well-being is crucial for race relations and advancing prosperity

The report closes by highlighting the metro areas where different racial and ethnic groups exhibit high levels of well-being, which can offer insights into community-level solutions that could lift well-being elsewhere. Place provides an opportunity to see how people in different locales reckon with their circumstances, and as incubators of diversity, cities are powerful facilitators of change in America. If city governments and civic organizations can understand well-being from the perspective of different racial identities, they can dismantle the architecture of inequality in their communities and beyond.