Sunday, February 01, 2009

Artistic Work Force

...there are two million trained, entrepreneurial working artists across the country who are assets to their communities. Representing 1.4 percent of the U.S. labor force, artists constitute a sizeable class of workers -- only slightly smaller than the total number of active-duty and reserve personnel in the U.S. military (2.2 million).
More info here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it's good to have a response to those who would ask why we would include arts in econ stimulus.