The report is available online at LGBT People Are More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Than the U.S. schools, LGBT people of color face extraordinarily high rates of unemployment and poverty.Ī Broken Bargain for LGBT Workers of Color, a companion to the recently released report, A Broken Bargain: Discrimination, Fewer Benefits, and More Taxes for LGBT Workers, is co-authored by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the Center for American Progress (CAP) and its FIRE Initiative, Freedom to Work, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), in partnership with Color of Change, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the National Action Network, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and SEIU. Due to discrimination combined with a lack of workplace protections, unequal job benefits and taxation, and unsafe, under-resourced U.S.
Washington, D.C.-According to a new report released today, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workers of color are among the most disadvantaged workers in America. Groundbreaking Report from Broad Coalition Explores Barriers to Good Jobs for LGBT Workers of Color