{"id":16100,"date":"2020-04-19T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=16100"},"modified":"2020-04-19T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:17:30","slug":"coronavirus-mcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2020\/04\/19\/coronavirus-mcc\/","title":{"rendered":"15K Jobs Affected, $264M Lost Revenue For MA Arts Organizations Due To Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts cultural organizations have lost more than $264,000,000 in revenue due to coronavirus, <a href=\"https:\/\/massculturalcouncil.org\/blog\/ma-cultural-organizations-report-more-than-264000000-dollars-in-revenue-loss-and-1000s-of-jobs-impacted-by-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Massachusetts Cultural Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than half of the organizations responding report layoffs, furloughs, and reductions in pay and working hours, affecting more than 15,000 jobs,\u201d the state arts agency reported. \u201c91% of all respondents report cancelling programming and events, and 95% of organizations with facilities report closing their facility to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Cultural Council reported that the information comes from some 700 organizations responding to its surveys between March 16 and 22 and April 4 and 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously:<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 24, 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2020\/03\/24\/coronavirus-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coronavirus Has Cost MA Artists And Cultural Organizations $58.59 Million. So Far.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts cultural organizations have lost more than $264,000,000 in revenue due to coronavirus, according to the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \u201cMore than half of the organizations responding report layoffs, furloughs, and reductions in pay and working hours, affecting more than 15,000 jobs,\u201d the state arts agency reported. \u201c91% of all respondents report cancelling programming and events, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions\/16129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}