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Infographic: Film Biz Has MASSIVE Financial Impact

In 2011 the US FilmBiz supported 1.9M Jobs, $1.4B in wages, & 108K businesses. This infographic the MPAA prepared shows the MASSIVE financial impact film creates.  You’d think we’d want to incentivize even more of it!
http://www.mpaa.org/Resources/ea7f8d13-12cd-4416-8a25-62d711e955f1.pdf
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How Do You Make Art When You Can’t Afford Housing?

I am sure I was not the only one who was a bit shocked to see the infographic that demonstrated that NOWHERE IN THE USA IS IT POSSIBLE TO AFFORD A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT ON A FORTY HOUR PER WEEK MINIMUM WAGE JOB. How can you have a family when you can not afford to care for them? The creation of art has become a luxury in America. No wonder we are a nation of money-movers when students leave college with a debt of hundreds of thousands of dollars.