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Today, to kick off 2024 Pride Month, Out Leadership launched the 6th Annual #LGBTQ State Business Climate Index, with our partner USA TODAY (on the cover of the Money/Business section!). As you may imagine, thanks to the efforts of anti-business, anti-science fear mongering by right wing legislatures (and Governors) across the country, which have resulted in over 1,000 anti-LGBTQ bills over the last 18 months—the overall score for the entire United States went DOWN for a SECOND year in a row, by 1.16%! Criminalizing #LGBTQ lives (and livelihoods) doesn’t protect our youth, it hurts them and their families. Leaders in these states need to ask themselves: How is making it harder for companies to attract and retain talent good for a state’s economy? It isn’t. There are direct economic (and of course, human) consequences to discrimination. I hope everyone checks out the 2024 Out Leadership Index, as well as all 50 CEO Business Briefs that we’ve built to explain it—and what we want leaders to DO here: https://lnkd.in/e-Zt5Ku6 Kudos to New York State for being the TOP state in the US for a 4th year in a row, and to Michigan for being jumping the most in this year’s Index (thanks to making the discredited practice of conversion therapy illegal, among other progress). Please share with your networks, your companies and your elected officials. #pride2024 #returnonequality
VP; Treasury Sales Client Officer at Bank of America with expertise in Financial Risk Management
2moElizabeth Guevara Murphy