{"id":2687,"date":"2017-02-01T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:55:12","slug":"lgbt-businesses-contribute-1-7-trillion-to-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2687","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Businesses Contribute $1.7 Trillion To The U.S. Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2688 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2823255013_9fa5d21650_b-667x500.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/on-small-business\/wp\/2017\/01\/23\/theres-green-in-being-gay-lgbt-businesses-contribute-1-7-trillion-to-the-u-s-economy\/?utm_term=.b6d0dd11ec06\">There?s Green In Being Gay: LGBT Businesses Contribute $1.7 Trillion To The U.S. Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Gay &amp; Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a trade group representing LGBT business owners, released a report showing that the average LGBT business has been running for 12 years and collectively these businesses add 33,000 jobs and $1.7 trillion to the US economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By Thomas Maxheimer There?s Green In Being Gay: LGBT Businesses Contribute $1.7 Trillion To The U.S. Economy The National Gay &amp; Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a trade group representing LGBT business owners, released a report showing that the average LGBT business has been running for 12 years and collectively these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}