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Recent study by M.V.Lee Badgett cited in story on the Open for Business campaign being launched to make the case for ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people

A news story looks at the Open for Business campaign that is being launched to make the case for ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and cites a recent study done by M.V. Lee Badgett, economics and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, that estimates the impact of discrimination on India’s GDP to about 1.4 percent of economic output. (The Guardian [U.K.], 9/29/15)

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Gerald Friedman comments in Washington Post news story on how Bernie Sanders’ ideas would change the country if he’s elected president

Gerald C. Friedman, economics, comments in a news story in The Washington Post about how U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ ideas would change the country if he is elected president. Friedman says, for example, if Sanders’ plan to use federal funding for public colleges and universities were implemented, it would require writing very specific rules about what building would qualify as “academic” as opposed to other uses that Sanders doesn’t want to fund. (Washington Post, 10/1/15)