{"id":612,"date":"2014-02-25T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:32:24","slug":"williams-institute-lgbt-more-likely-to-struggle-with-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/612","title":{"rendered":"Williams Institute: LGBT More Likely To Struggle with Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/02\/21\/us-study-lgbt-people-twice-likely-struggle-issues-hunger\/\">In a study<\/a> that was <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Food-Insecurity-in-LGBT-Communities.pdf\">published by UCLA\u2019s Williams Institute<\/a>, researchers found that LGBT individuals were significantly more likely to struggle with hunger than their heterosexual counterparts. Some key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>29% of LGBT adults said that at some point in the last year they did not have adequate resources to feed themselves or their families<\/li>\n<li>Same-sex couples raising children were more than twice as likely as heterosexual couples to receive SNAP assistance<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 1 in 4 bisexuals (25%) receive food stamps, compared to 14% of lesbians and gay men.<\/li>\n<li>More than a third (34%) of LGBT-identified women did not have money for food in the last year compared to 20% of non-LGBT women and 24% of LGBT men.<\/li>\n<li>An estimated 17% of female same-sex couples received food stamps compared with 10% of male same-sex couples and 9% of different-sex couples.<\/li>\n<li>While nearly 1 in 4 White LGBT adults (23%) experienced food insecurity at some point last year, the figure was more than 1 in 3 for African-American LGBT adults (37%), more than 1 in 2 for LGBT Native Americans (55%), and more than 3 in 4 for Native Hawaiians (78%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These startling and troubling statistics show that there is still a lot of progress to be made for individuals throughout the queer community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study that was published by UCLA\u2019s Williams Institute, researchers found that LGBT individuals were significantly more likely to struggle with hunger than their heterosexual counterparts. Some key findings: 29% of LGBT adults said that at some point in the last year they did not have adequate resources to feed themselves or their families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}