Recession Wanes, But Artists Still Starving
As the country has battled the Great Recession, we've been inundated with reports of corporate layoffs and manufacturing jobs vanishing. But there's another group of American workers that has been particularly hard hit " the creative class. In an ongoing series for Salon, reporter Scott Timberg writes that the last few years have seen a huge drop-off in jobs in the creative industries. He cites figures from the Burea…