Big Increase for the NEA
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a spending bill that increases the National Endowment for the Arts’ budget by about $20 million. President Bush is considered likely to sign the bill, which will represents a 16% increase over the NEA’s budget from last year.
Some of you may know that I haven’t always been the biggest supporter of the NEA. Still one can’t help but feel a bit warm and fuzzy about this validation.
They like us, they really like us! Or at least, they don’t despise us quite as much as they used to. We still spend roughly 1/200th as much per capita on the arts as Finland.
