Theatres and performing arts venues across the US have been closed during the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in the lost of thousands of jobs Photo: Edwin Hooper on Unsplash
Economic reports released in New York and Los Angeles this week reveal the dire impact of the coronavirus pandemic on arts employment in the US. On Thursday, the Otis College of Art and Design released its annual report on the creative economy in California, finding that every single sector saw substantial losses throughout the year, with over 175,000 jobs gone across the state in the past year, including nearly a quarter of the cultural workforce in Los Angeles. While in New York, a report from the state Comptroller’s Office found that employment in the creative fields had fallen by 66% in the past year.
Steep Job Losses in California, Home to the Largest Creative Economy in the US, Spell Trouble for the Rest of the Country, a Report Says
The report s authors hope to suggest a path to recovery.
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Image via Otis.edu
A study released today by the prestigious Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles paints a clear and unflattering portrait of the damage the pandemic has wrought on the California art world and its related industries.
According to the paper, which is the school’s 15th annual edition, the creative economy lost more than 13 percent of its job in California, and more than 25 percent in Los Angeles County. The motion picture and video production sector endured the brunt of the impact, with nearly 92,000 jobs lost nationwide; California accounted for roughly 60,000 of those, while Los Angeles County alone accounted for about 50,000.
USPS data reveals households fled SF during pandemic, but didnât go far
USPS data reveals households fled SF during pandemic, but didnât go far
The U.S. Postal Service s analysis of address change requests shows nearly 80,000 San Francisco households moved out of the city during the pandemic so far, while 27,000 households moved in; a net loss of 53,000. But, some 28,000 households moved to another Bay Area county and another 4,000 stayed California.
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear many people tell it, California is seeing a mass out-of-state migration based on a number of reasons from high cost of housing, congestion, homelessness, taxation and even fear of crime. But, given the new ability of many Californians to telework from anywhere, is the Golden State s population just fading away?
COVID-19 economy: Huge job losses hammer Bay Area hotels, restaurants [The Mercury News :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-BAYAREA-ECONOMY:SJ]
SAN JOSE, Calif. Coronavirus-linked economic woes unleashed mammoth job losses for hotels and restaurants in the Bay Area and all of California last year, as business travel, tourism and dining out shriveled, an analysis of new reports shows.
The Bay Area lost well over 100,000 hotel and restaurant jobs, a drop of 33.6 percent from 2019, according to figures compiled by Beacon Economics that were analyzed by this news organization.
In California, the economic setbacks erased nearly a half-million lodging and dining jobs, a 29 percent drop from the prior year.
California lifted a COVID-19 stay-at-home order last week, just after it was revealed that unemployment had spiked in December to 9%, one of the nation s highest rates, columnist Dan Walters