Almost 30 Percent Of Bisexual Women and Trans People Live In Poverty, New Report Finds
A new report from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has found that bisexual women and trans people have a poverty rate of almost 30 percent.
The report firstly examined the LGBT+ community as a whole and found that 22% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people reported earnings less than the federal poverty level, whereas for the cisgender straight community the percentage is almost 16 percent.
Then, researches separated the L, G, B and T and found that the poverty rate in the LGBT+ community is not equally distributed with bisexual women and trans people of all sexual orientations having a poverty level of almost 30%, in contrast with gay men and lesbians who reported similar levels of poverty as their heterosexual counterparts.
“Study author Bianca Wilson says that with so many unknowns presented by the data, her next project at UCLA's Williams Institute will be a qualitative study that will interview subjects and attempt to answer why certain groups within the LGBTQ community are so disproportionately impacted by poverty,” ‘NBC News’ reports.
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