The Economics of Being Seen

What does economic inequality look like when we account for gender identity, sexual orientation, and lived experience?

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Lee Badgett shares decades of research into the economic lives of LGBTQ people—and what most data still gets wrong.

Badgett, co-founder of the LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab, breaks down wage gaps, poverty risks, and the persistent effects of discrimination across gender, sexuality, and race. She discusses why it’s essential to have LGBTQ economists leading the work, how survey design shapes what we see, and why better data means better policy for everyone.

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Koppa: The LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab

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