LGBT Economic Justice

Subject: Send a letter: LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Priorities for COVID Recovery

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Friend,

I just wrote a letter calling on Congress to enact solutions in the COVID recovery to the crises of public health, housing, poverty, and racial injustice afflicting LGBTQ people, and to invest in solutions that can help LGBTQ communities.

LGBTQ+ people were disproportionately afflicted with poverty before March 2020, and the pandemic has exacerbated this. One in five LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. lived in poverty before the pandemic, according to the Williams Institute—including nearly three in ten transgender people. The Movement Advancement Project reports that since the start of the pandemic, two-thirds of LGBTQ+ households have experienced a loss of employment—and two-thirds have suffered one or more serious financial problems.

Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://bit.ly/fight-lgbtq-poverty?source=email&

Thanks!