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: The Faculty LoungeThe Economics of Marriage Equality
By firstamendmentblogger
If the moral imperative favoring marriage equality won't sway the right, maybe $100 million will. That's how much gay marriage injected into the Massachusetts economy over the past five years.
According to one study, "marriage equality resulted in an increase of younger, female, and more highly educated and skilled individuals in same-sex couples moving to the state." And according to another, same-sex couples? weddings injected significant spending into the Massachusetts economy and brought out-of-state guests to the state, whose spending also added to the economic boost."
Perhaps this is one reason why states with somee of the biggest budget shortfalls - Massachusetts, California and Connecticut - are the one's leading the charge on marriage equality.
-Kathleen A. Bergin
Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).
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