CFYS Research Fellow Dr. Cecilia Benoit: Sex workers excluded from COVID-19 benefits

CFYS Research Fellow Dr. Cecilia Benoit has authored an article on how Canada's COVID relief plans, aimed to leave no one behind, exclude sex workers. With establishments such as strip clubs, massage parlours and escort agencies, forced to close, those who work in the sex industry are likely to have faced job loss but are unlikely to qualify for government relief programs such as CERB. 

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