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NEA funding whiplash
Art in America, April, 2008
We knew it couldn't last. Following eight years of creeping increases for the National Endowment for the Arts, including a $20.3-million boost for fiscal year 2008, passed in late December, President Bush's proposed budget for FY 2009 contains a $16.3 million cut for the agency. The 2008 figure represented the NEA's largest increase in 28 years, taking the agency to its highest level of funding in 13 years. The FY 2009 allocation would amount to $128.4 million, down from $144.7 million this year (the NEA's largest allocation was $176 million in 1992). Bush's proposed budget must be approved by the House and Senate, which hammer out the final amount in a Congressional committee.
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The White House has also proposed a 60-percent cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has received advance funding of $400 million from Congress, and is aiming to zero out funding for the U.S. Department of Education's $37.5-million arts-education budget.
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