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Sur­vey Shows GLBT Adults More Con­fi­dent and Hope­ful than Oth­ers on Econ­omy
ROCHESTER, N.Y. & WASHINGTON–(Business Wire)–
As Pres­i­dent Barack Obama focuses his atten­tion on a mul­ti­tude of crit­i­cal
issues fac­ing the nation today, GLBT adults in the coun­try say they are more
opti­mistic for the future than their het­ero­sex­ual coun­ter­parts. A new national
sur­vey con­ducted online in mid-August by Witeck-Combs Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Har­ris
Inter­ac­tive® shows two-thirds (67%) of GLBT adults say that things in the
coun­try are going in the right direc­tion, com­pared to 45 per­cent of het­ero­sex­ual
adults. This is an increase from June 2009 when 56 per­cent of GLBT adults said
that things were mov­ing in the right direction.

When it comes to their out­look on the econ­omy and their own per­sonal finan­cial
sit­u­a­tion, GLBT adults also appear some­what more con­fi­dent then their
het­ero­sex­ual coun­ter­parts. A major­ity (57%) of GLBT adults said they expect the
econ­omy to improve in the com­ing year, com­pared to 45 per­cent of het­ero­sex­ual
adults. In the next 6 months just look­ing at gay and les­bian adults, 31 per­cent
expect their household‘s finan­cial con­di­tion to be bet­ter, com­pared with 24
per­cent of het­ero­sex­ual adults. The sur­vey also found that more than two-thirds
(69%) of GLBT adults would rate the over­all job Pres­i­dent Barack Obama is doing
in han­dling the econ­omy as excel­lent or pretty good, while only 38 per­cent of
het­ero­sex­ual adults agree. Con­tinue read­ing Two-Thirds of GLBT Amer­i­cans Think Nation Headed in the Right Direction