{"id":7117,"date":"2017-02-13T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:16:57","slug":"destroying-public-arts-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"DESTROYING PUBLIC ARTS FUNDING ="},"content":{"rendered":"<p>undermining prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron D. Knochel runs the numbers at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-do-conservatives-want-the-government-to-defund-the-arts-71866\">The Converation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the present administration and the conservative movement claim they\u2019re simply trying to save taxpayer dollars, they also ignore the significant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforthearts.org\/by-program\/reports-and-data\/research-studies-publications\/arts-economic-prosperity-iv\">economic impacts of the arts<\/a>. The Bureau of Economic Analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/newsreleases\/general\/acpsa\/acpsa0216.pdf\">reported<\/a> that the arts and culture industry generated $704.8 billion of economic activity in 2013 and employed nearly five million people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/infographic-nea-funding-the-arts\">For every dollar of NEA funding<\/a>, there are seven dollars of funding from other private and public funds. Elimination of the agency endangers this economic vitality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>undermining prosperity. Aaron D. Knochel runs the numbers at The Converation: &#8220;While the present administration and the conservative movement claim they\u2019re simply trying to save taxpayer dollars, they also ignore the significant economic impacts of the arts. The Bureau of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=7117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}