How Arts Groups Won a Victory in New Stimulus Measure
February 17, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The actor Robert Redford played a key role in helping persuade Congress to put $50-million into the stimulus plan that President Obama will sign today, reports The New York Times.
The arts money had been passed by the House but stripped from the bill by the Senate, so it became the subject of an intense fight among Congressional negotiators. The newspaper takes an inside look at how the money was restored to the National Endowment for the Arts.
“We had the facts on our side,” said Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, Democrat of New York, who co-chairs the Congressional Arts Caucus. “If we’re trying to stimulate the economy and get money into the Treasury, nothing does that better than art.”
Read more about the victories and losses by charities and foundations in the measure President Obama is signing today.
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