“Meanwhile, the Americans for the Arts Action Fund, a non-profit art lobbying group, has released its Congressional Arts Report Card for 2012. The report assigns members of congress a grade ranging from A through F for their support for arts funding, based on a points system decided by a number of factors, ranging from voting records to the introduction of arts-benefiting legislation. The study points out that arts spending “represents just 0.028% of non-military discretionary funding”.”
— Oh budgets…
October 29, 2012, 11:24am