In just the past few months, the freedom to marry has been granted to same-sex couples in more states than ever before. While the benefits to committed and loving same-sex couples are vast, the economic impact of marriage equality within each state is great as well.

Our friends at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law recently released their new economic interactive that lets you find out just how great the business impact of marriage equality is, or could be, in your state.

In The Business Impact of Opening Marriage to Same-sex Couples, the new interactive breaks down the impact of marriage equality by region, state, and by those states that allow same-sex marriage compared to those that do not.

Some of the findings from the Williams Institute are:

• The U.S. can benefit from a $2.6 billion spending boom by allowing same-sex couples to marry in each state.
• States in the South that have been slow to open marriage to same-sex couples could see a total economic benefit of $733 million.
• 29 percent, $750 million nationwide, remains unlocked by states that have not yet extended marriage to same-sex couples.

This interactive could be used as a great resource that can help further make the case for marriage equality across the country. Click here to see the economic impact in your state.

While marriage is an important milestone, it is not the whole journey. Many LGBT individuals in states across the country still lack basic protections. In another interactive from the Williams Institute, you can explore and see just how LGBT Americans face greater social and economic disparities in the South, Midwest, and Mountain states, where many lack laws to protect them.

The LGBT Divide: A Data Portrait of LGBT People in the Midwestern, Mountain & Southern States reviews social climate, demographic, economic and health indicators, and also highlights disparities between the 21 states that currently have non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and the 29 states without such laws.

Key findings include :

• Southern LGBT individuals also have the lowest insurance rates in the country, with nearly one in four lacking insurance.
• LGBT individuals in the Midwest are less likely to have completed a college degree by age 25 than non-LGBT Midwesterners, while LGBT individuals in other regions of the country tend to have similar or higher levels of education than their non-LGBT counterparts.
• Same-sex couples in the Mountain states have the lowest adoption rates of same-sex couples throughout the country, even though different-sex married couples in the same region have the highest adoption rate in the country, among different-sex married couples.

LGBT individuals in the South, Midwest, and Mountain face great disparities in their everyday lives. Click here to learn more by viewing the interactive or by reading the full report.