[FAC] Press Release: NEA ANNOUNCES RESEARCH ON ARTIST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

[Maria Franco]

For immediate release
Contact:  Sally Gifford, NEA Communications 

March 4, 2009
202-682-5606


 


NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES RESEARCH ON ARTIST UNEMPLOYMENT
RATES 


 

Washington, D.C. - Unemployment rates are up among working artists and the
artist workforce has contracted, according to new research from the National
Endowment for the Arts.  Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in
2008 examines how the economic slowdown has affected the nation's working
artists.  The study looks at artist employment patterns during two spikes in
the current recession - the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2008.  This downturn
reflects larger economic declines: a Commerce Department report last week
noted a 6.2 percent decrease in the gross domestic product in the last
quarter of 2008.

 

For the full press release, visit
http://www.arts.gov/news/news09/artist-unemployment-rates.html

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