Arts funding is jobs funding.

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Recently, I had dinner with some lovely people and the conversation turned, as it so often does these days, to politics and economics.  I mentioned the importance of arts funding, and one of my companions -- an artist herself -- said something like, "I care about arts funding, too, but jobs are more important."

Whoa.

It's time we stopped thinking of ourselves as charity cases.  Arts jobs are no less important...[read more]