{"id":12658,"date":"2022-02-09T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/creatives-rebuild-new-york-guaranteed-income-and-hundreds-of-jobs-for-artists\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:35:16","slug":"creatives-rebuild-new-york-guaranteed-income-and-hundreds-of-jobs-for-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/creatives-rebuild-new-york-guaranteed-income-and-hundreds-of-jobs-for-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatives Rebuild New York: Guaranteed Income and Hundreds of Jobs for Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new program spearheaded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will provide guaranteed income and jobs for up to 2,700 artists living throughout New York State reports Hyperallergic. “The $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists with financial need over the next three years.”<\/p>\n
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“New York\u2019s arts sector was one of the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a report by the state comptroller last February.<\/a> Two-thirds of arts, entertainment, and recreation jobs in the city were suddenly lost in 2020, and across the state, about half were lost.<\/p>\n