How to get to ‘Sesame Street’
By
Ashley Ames
· Wednesday, Nov. 11,2009 10:14 p.m.
Shows like “Sesame Street,” corporations like PBS and many other nonprofit arts organizations are suffering through the recession. Private donations have waned, and state and local governments are quickly slashing arts out of their tight budgets. The Sesame Workshop recently laid off 20 percent of its staff because of decreased budgets. As Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, stated: “More than 10 percent of the nation’s 100,000 nonprofit arts organizations are at risk of closing this year at the loss of thousands of jobs.”
