OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE
APRIL 17 2009
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ingly, “The children of gay male couples
were much more likely to be poor.”
Albelda said most antipoverty programs
in American were designed from the
default position of a single parent house­
hold with children: “There is no incentive
whatsoever to claim somebody’s income in
the household if you don’t have to.” This
discourages heterosexual marriage.
At the same time, employment-based
benefits packages “are based on a male
breadwinner model” with families in mind.
“Gay and lesbian families don’t look like
either of those,” she said.
One thing that surprised Albelda is
the effect of education. “Highly educated
lesbian and gay male couples are much less
likely to be in poverty than comparably
educated married couples. And the reverse
is true, those [lesbians and gay men] with
lower levels of education are much more
likely to be poor. So the payoff for educa­
tion at both ends is much more extreme for
gay and lesbian couples.”
Badgett said employment discrimina­
tion was a major explanation of lower eco­
nomic status. “We see a large income gap
for gay men compared with heterosexual
men.”
Some reports have theorized that gay
men are more likely to be self-employed,
perhaps by choice, suggesting they might
be making career decisions based on job
satisfaction rather than on maximizing
income. But Badgett said she has not seen
solid data confirming any of this.
Another possibility was that some
people might be limiting their income in
order to meet eligibility qualifications for
programs such as housing assistance or
AIDS drug assistance programs (ADAP).
Albelda readily acknowledged anecdot­
al accounts of this occurring, though she
was not aware of any data on the extent
of that activity. She said with incomes be­
tween about S13-S25 an hour, “You run in
place and lose valuable support” as income
increases.
Diego M. Sanchez, legislative assistant
to Rep. Barney Frank (D), admitted this is
a problem for people in the congressman’s
Boston area district living with HIV. “If
you make too much money you don’t get
medical entitlements. You get pulled off of
the waiting list for housing.”
Sanchez said they were working to try
to remove these disincentives in the Medi­
care and Medicaid program. JW
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