From the Fractured Atlas blog:
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a spending bill that increases the National Endowment for the Arts' budget by about $20 million. President Bush is considered likely to sign the bill, which will represents a 16% increase over the NEA's budget from last year.This speaks for itself, right?
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They like us, they really like us! Or at least, they don't despise us quite as much as they used to. We still spend roughly 1/200th as much per capita on the arts as Finland.
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I wrote that blog post over at FA (thanks for the link!) and I just wanted to clarify something. Finland actually has the highest per capita gov't spending on the arts of any country in the world. So it was sort of a loaded comparison for me to use, though it's undeniably a dramatic number. It's also worth remembering that private support for the arts is much higher in the US than in most other countries.
Posted by Adam Huttler | December 21, 2007 10:38 AM
Posted on December 21, 2007 10:38