{"id":73511,"date":"2020-12-27T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73511"},"modified":"2020-12-27T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:23:56","slug":"a-great-cultural-depression-looms-for-legions-of-unemployed-performers-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/12\/27\/a-great-cultural-depression-looms-for-legions-of-unemployed-performers-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Great Cultural Depression\u2019 Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers\u00a0[nytimes.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<p data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/26\/arts\/unemployed-performer-theatre-arts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A \u2018Great Cultural Depression\u2019 Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; from nytimes.com<br \/>\n<em>With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has cut deeper than in restaurants and other hard-hit industries.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">During the quarter ending in September, when the overall unemployment rate averaged 8.5 percent, 52 percent of actors, 55 percent of dancers and 27 percent of musicians were out of work, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. By comparison, the jobless rate was 27 percent for waiters; 19 percent for cooks; and about 13 percent for retail salespeople over the same period.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/theater\/be-an-arts-hero.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Actors and Writers and Now, Congressional Lobbyists<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nytimes.com<br \/>\n<em>Be an #ArtsHero started with a failed effort to extend unemployment benefits. It\u2019s gone on to be a prime proponent of the message: Cultural work is labor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018Great Cultural Depression\u2019 Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers\u00a0&#8212; from nytimes.com With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has cut deeper than in restaurants and other hard-hit industries. Excerpt: During the quarter ending in September, when the overall unemployment rate averaged 8.5 percent, 52 percent of actors, 55 percent of dancers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,387,86,209,498,271,434,306,285,436,480,212,206,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-communities-of-practice","category-creativity","category-dramatheater","category-economics","category-legislation-legislatures","category-reinvent","category-society","category-surviving","category-trends","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73530,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions\/73530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}