Queer Money Fear$

Nancy

WNYC Studios

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The economy is built for cisgender, heterosexual people. We're exploring the financial hurdles queer people face and how we navigate them. It's Nancy's "Queer Money Matters."

If you want to see the results of "Nancy’s 2019 Money Survey of a Representative Sample of the Queer and Non-Queer US Population," head over to Queer Money Matters.

— Lee Badgett is an economist, professor, and LGBT policy expert. She teaches at UMass Amherst.

Special thanks this week to Adam Auriemma, Editor-in-Chief of Money Magazine, Morning Consult, and the WNYC data team.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	Hi Nancy.
0:01.0	Hi Nancy.
0:02.0	Hi Nancy.
0:03.0	I have been thinking about fear around queer finances.
0:11.0	I had to sigh a little bit because I realized how impacted I've been by this.
0:17.0	What we're finding out more and more is just how much the financial system is just geared
0:24.0	toward cisgender and heterosexual individuals.
0:30.0	There was this implicit, unspoken expectation that I would probably marry a man somewhat young.
0:37.0	And he would kind of be the breadwinner and take care of all the finances.
0:43.0	So that really affected how I dealt with money.
0:55.0	From WNYC Studios, this is Nancy.
0:58.0	I'm your host, Tobin Low and Kathy too.
1:10.0	Kathy.
1:11.0	Yes Tobin.
1:12.0	I don't know if this is happening to you, but I feel like all of my straight friends are getting married.
1:16.0	Yes, it's 100% happening to me.
1:18.0	So many weddings to go to.
1:20.0	So many weddings.
1:21.0	It sets off this chain reaction of events that I've noticed, which is to say that like, so my straight friends get married.
1:28.0	Yep.
1:29.0	And then inevitably like a year later, I get that text that's like surprise, we're pregnant.
1:34.0	Yay.
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