Is art a job? A playwright bemoans the American attitude toward artists.(Commentary)
American Theatre, July, 2004 by Klein, Jon
There is a lot of buzz about the last two job reports submitted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which announce the creation of over 500,000 new jobs between February and April. It certainly seems like encouraging news for our troubled economy--at first glance. Take a closer look at the reports.
(The Bureau of Labor Statistics website, updated monthly, is at http://www.bls.gov/news.releaselempsit.nr0.htm.) The number of self-employed workers fell by a total of 214,000, the largest drop in any class of worker for those two months. That's the category for people who work ...
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