COVID-19 data already shows marginalized communities are the most at risk, advocacy groups say.
MEXICO CITY, April 23 - Gay and trans people in the United States are twice as likely to say their finances are worse off than their straight peers and have seen more cuts in work hours in the coronavirus outbreak, research published on Thursday showed.
An unprecedented 26.5 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits since mid-March as the novel coronavirus and the lockdown measures to curtail the outbreak savage the economy. The research showed while about a fifth of LGBT+ people in the United States said their personal finances were “much worse off” than a year ago, among the general population only 11% had seen their finances worsen.
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