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I study LGBT inequality to learn how to end it. “…I would argue that those of us whose work addresses social and economic inequalities have an ethical responsibility to ‘be the change we seek.’ Our relationships with the people we work with—and for—can be deepened by working thoughtfully and with an eye to our work as a means to reducing inequality, not just an end.” from The Public Professor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588174735960-VULPV3MR84VT2HN63D0S/IMG_4019.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588175387813-AO0YBQ43PT9RVTOONNE7/20151216_110012-1.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588175360508-ANYKUPI60G73MWW7VTGF/SGS+5.jpg About Salzburg Global Seminar/Ela Grieshaber https://www.leebadgett.com/home daily 1.0 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588115541418-MB87BZNABAJ99557YC0R/IMG_7866.JPG Home - NEW: The LGBTI Livelihoods Project The LGBTI Livelihoods Project is a new effort to build ideas and knowledge about how LGBTI people can gain economic power and better lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588116075383-3UDPHVWZ02XZQEFT4J51/Econ+Case+book+image.jpg Home - “Eye-opening in its global scope, The Economic Case for LGBT Equality is a must-read for all business leaders and policymakers.” — Janet Yellen, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution https://www.leebadgett.com/theeconomiccase daily 0.75 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588171053834-ZEPI9ZYWYGRFSREHJFQB/Econ+Case+book+image.jpg The Economic Case for LGBT Equality - We know that homophobia harms LGBT individuals in many ways, but economist M. V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons for equality, we can now also make a financial argument. Finding that homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country’s GDP, Badgett expertly uses recent research and statistics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments affect both the US and global economies. Discriminatory laws, people being fired from jobs for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, harassment and bullying in school, violence and hate crimes on the streets, exclusion from intolerant families, and health effects of stigma all make it incredibly difficult to live a good life. Examining the consequences of anti-LGBT practices across multiple countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, India and the Philippines, Badgett reveals the expensive repercussions of hate and discrimination, and how our economy loses when we miss out on the full benefit of LGBT people’s potential contributions. https://www.leebadgett.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-05-07 https://www.leebadgett.com/other-books daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588276672285-I5DZZZUXJ1B3MT9RTYFF/badgett+front.jpg Other books New York University Press, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588347677978-SRJJ8NDJ024B2XDABKU5/BOOK.jpg Other books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588278206756-K50PTA8HHQCA0ICEOUG8/chinese+translation.jpeg Other books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588347655198-HD0FSNVJB70TS2BJ74WX/book+copy.jpg Other books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588279542044-YHE82O9Y4227C7YHDU2E/int%27l+book.jpg Other books Routledge, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/1588279320166-G89RHD7CFF4SJVLUFJI2/MMC.jpg Other books University of Chicago Press, 2001 https://www.leebadgett.com/writing daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://www.leebadgett.com/lgbti-livelihoods-project daily 0.75 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8b30ef6cf00375e8df429/05c8de07-cea6-4dda-9d2a-2078b3f27271/rainbow+flag+SGS.jpeg LGBTI Livelihoods Project - LGBTI Livelihoods Project Even where human rights are expanding, low-income LGBTI people are often left behind. They have high rates of food insecurity, employment discrimination, poverty, and health challenges, and these inequalities have been magnified by the COVID pandemic. Unfortunately, we still know much more about those problems than we do about the solutions. How can we increase opportunities for higher incomes, more education, and access to jobs? Inclusive public policies help, like nondiscrimination laws and decriminalization, but we need more strategies for improving people’s lives and livelihoods. The LGBTI Livelihoods Project is a new effort to build ideas and knowledge about how LGBTI people can gain economic power and better lives. One path involves inclusive development projects that provide valuable skills and resources in the hands of LGBT people to improve their standard of living and to become empowered and respected in their communities and families. Another pathway might focus on creating innovative funding mechanisms to support social enterprises and LGBTI entrepreneurs. The LGBTI movement is a resourceful one, and at least some LGBTI organizations are starting to use these strategies for change. Three colleagues and I recently collected data on projects that seek to improve the livelihoods and economic power of LGBTI people, and we found 59 projects in 23 countries. Most of them have been created by LGBTI people and organizations from the grassroots, not by top-down efforts of development agencies. These projects help LGBTI people build new vocational skills, provide support with finding a job, use microfinance loans to start small businesses, and learn to start or grow a business (including through impact investing). You can download the working paper here: Identifying Effective Strategies to Improve Livelihoods of LGBTI People. Sign up here to join us for a presentation of this research on March 3, 2022, at 9 am EST. For more on this project, see my commentary in The Advocate: “Who is Fighting the Economic Oppression of LGBTQI+ People?”