We need your help.
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The Arts & Culture sector of our country is suffering from the shutdown as we are repeatedly overlooked as an important contribution to our local economies.
These are just some of the people affected by this.
Arts & Culture play a significant role in the economic activity of the country. The value-added to GDP by arts and cultural production is nearly five times greater than that of the agricultural sector, adds nearly $60 billion more than construction and $227 billion more than transportation and warehousing to the U.S. economy.
Money needs to be allocated to keep the arts alive.
How can you help?
Contact your Senators today! Call, write, email, tweet! Let them know we need to help our arts institutions and artists survive this crisis. We need federal funding.
Script
Don’t know what to say? Here is a simple script for contacting your senators.
Hi there.
My name is __________, I am a constituent of Senator __________.
Arts & Culture adds $877 billion in value to the economy, employs 5.1 million people, and is 4.5% of GDP. That’s big business. Right now arts institutions are shutting down daily and a lot of them for good. Without dedicated relief, arts institutions and artists won’t be able to survive this crisis. That won’t just hurt them. It will hurt all of us if that vibrant Arts economy is allowed to collapse So I urge Senator ________ to craft legislation that extends the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, subsidizes COBRA so that people keep their insurance in a global pandemic, and dedicates billions of dollars in relief to the arts. Arts are part of the economy. The WHOLE economy needs relief. There’s no American economic recovery without an Arts & Culture recovery. So it has to happen.
Thank you so much for your time.
MI Senator Contact Information
Gary Peters (D)
Hart Senate Office Building, Suite 724
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-6221
www.peters.senate.gov
Email: www.peters.senate.gov/contact/email-gary
Debbie Stabenow (D)
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
202-224-4822
www.stabenow.senate.gov
Email: www.stabenow.senate.gov/contact
