Municipal Equality Index 2024
The 2023 MEI is the twelfth annual edition and rates a total of 506 cities on 49 different criteria from every state in the nation.
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The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen – A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship
Building on decades of work with businesses in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, the Human Rights Campaign’s first-ever Corporate Citizenship Report examines how corporations can work across all of their…
Corporate Equality Index 2025
As the national benchmarking tool measuring policies, practices, and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) employees, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is a…
Foreclosure and Eviction Among LGBTQ+ Adults
Many LGBTQ+ people experience homelessness at some point in their lifetime. Previous research suggests that LGBTQ+ people could comprise 20% to 40% of the homeless population. LGBTQ+ youth are also…
Equality Rising: LGBTQ+ Workers and the Road Ahead
The national findings underscore the persistence of workplace double standards and social isolation faced by LGBTQ+ people.
Understanding Disability in the LGBTQ+ Community
Disability refers to conditions that impair the body or mind and make it more difficult or impossible to do certain activities or functions of daily living. The Centers for Disease…
The LGBTQ+ Women’s Wage Gap in the United States
In an HRC Foundation analysis of over 2,100 full-time LGBTQ+ women workers (including both cisgender and transgender women, analyzed together),the median weekly earnings for LGBTQ+ women was $875.
The Wage Gap Among LGBTQ+ Workers in the United States
In an HRC Foundation analysis of nearly 7,000 full-time LGBTQ+ workers, median earnings were about $900 weekly, about 90% of the $1,001 median weekly wage a typical worker earns in…
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