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How the 'Fiscal Showdown' Impacts Gay and Transgender Americans
Center for American Progress (leftist think tank) ^
| November 20, 2012
| Andrew Cray, Crosby Burns, and Erin Fitzgerald
Posted on 11/24/2012 4:23:28 AM PST by Salman
Avoiding sequestration remains a critical policy goal for Congress. Doing so is important for all Americans, including gay and transgender Americans and their families. As this report details, many federal programs, both directly and indirectly, function to support and serve the gay and transgender population. If across-the-board budget cuts go into effect, this population will experience a host of negative outcomes, including the following:
- Sequestration would hurt gay and transgender workers and threaten their employment security because federal agencies would have fewer resources to investigate claims of employment discrimination.
- Sequestration would compromise gay and transgender health by reducing programmatic funding used to address the health care needs of gay and transgender Americans.
- Sequestration would remove critical resources from government agencies currently working to combat bullying and school violence against gay and transgender youth.
- Sequestration would limit the federal governments ability to address the high rates of homelessness among gay and transgender youth.
- Sequestration would limit the governments capacity to prevent discrimination in housing against gay and transgender renters, tenants, and potential homeowners.
- Sequestration would hamper the governments efforts to prevent violent crime against gay and transgender people through enforcement of hate crimes legislation and other similar federal initiatives aimed at preventing violence in this community.
The bottom line: Gay and transgender Americans simply cannot afford to be caught in the middle of the fiscal showdown. Reductions to federal programs under sequestration would be particularly harmful to gay and transgender people of color, a population that already experiences significant health disparities and economic vulnerabilities due to their double minority status.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fdrq; gayagenda; homosexualagenda
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To: Salman
It took three journalists to write this "article." Too bad the "fiscal showdown" won't effect journalists.
I wonder if one of these "journalist" had an addadichtomy, or a cutadichtomy.
5.56mm
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11/24/2012 6:24:55 AM PST
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M Kehoe
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Salman.
Avoiding sequestration... is important for all Americans, including gay and transgender Americans and their families... many federal programs, both directly and indirectly, function to support and serve the gay and transgender population... Reductions to federal programs under sequestration would be particularly harmful to gay and transgender people of color, a population that already experiences significant health disparities and economic vulnerabilities due to their double minority status.
IOW, raise taxes.
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11/24/2012 6:31:26 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Salman
The more I learn, the more I am thinking that going off the Fiscal Cliff is a good thing and something we should all support!
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