Arts funding response and readiness kit

from Americans for the Arts

http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/toolkit/006.asp

New Study Reveals that Arts-Related Businesses Provide Significant Employment in all 50 States

WASHINGTON, DC — May 12, 2008 — Americans for the Arts today released Creative Industries 2008: The State Report, which presents detailed analysis of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations in the country's 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The study reveals that arts-centric businesses represent 4.3 percent of all businesses and 2.2 percent of all jobs in the United States and that the arts are a robust and formidable economic growth sector.

http://www.americansforthearts.org/news/press/2008/2008_05_12a.asp

Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force