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Originally Posted by troutman

Trump is planning to kill the NEA, cut loose PBS and NPR

http://www.avclub.com/article/trump-...ocialMarketing

Here's an interesting article on what's at stake for the arts if Trump kills the NEA.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1418-w...-for-the-arts/

According to NEA data, the endowment’s budget for fiscal 2015 was $146 million. That represents 0.004 percent of the overall federal budget, or 46 cents per American per year. It’s also almost one-third what the U.S. budget allocated last year for military bands. For an international comparison, the Canada Council for the Arts budgets eight times as much, on a per-person basis, with plans to double that by 2021.

Historically, the agency has awarded thousands of grants for orchestras, jazz, operas, chamber music, and beyond. And just looking back through the past year or so, the array of specific programs affected by the endowment is dizzying. If you saw a video last year of David Bowie talking about working with Lou Reed, that was part of an NEA-funded digital archive. An Esperanza Spalding performance at Manhattan’s Baryshnikov Arts Center, a Steve Reich 80th-birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall, and a Quincy Jones tribute at the Monterey Jazz Festival are among endowment-boosted events from 2016.