Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
HRC Releases Research Brief on Economic and Health Effects of COVID-19 on LGBTQ Community
thegavoice.comThe Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) published a research brief on Friday (March 20) detailing the health and economic risks raced by the LGBTQ community during the COVID-19 outbreak.
According to the brief, LGBTQ people are more likely to work in industries whose jobs are currently being highly affected by the coronavirus.
Two million LGBTQ people, or 15 percent of the United States’ LGBTQ population, work in restaurants and food services; 1 million, or 7.5 percent, work in hospitals; almost 1 million work both in K-12 education and colleges/universities each; and half a million, or 4 percent, work in retail.
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