Art Workers Are Up to Six Times More Likely to Be Out of a Job 10 Big-City Mayors Are Imploring Biden to Bail Them Out artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
January 28, 2021 at 9:48am
The mayors of ten major US cities have penned a letter to the Biden-Harris administration asking it to take an integrated federal approach to supporting the arts. In their missive, the mayors noted that the September unemployment rate for those in the arts ranged from roughly three to six times that of the overall national unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, according to the National Endowment of the Arts.
The mayors who signed the letter are London Breed, San Francisco; Lori Lightfoot, Chicago; Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles; Jenny Durkan, Seattle; Kate Gallego, Phoenix; David Martin, Stamford, CT; Sylvester Turner, Houston; Ted Wheeler, Portland, OR; Jim Kenney, Philadelphia; and Cassie Franklin, Everett, WA.