L.A. County Coronavirus Update: 890,000 Entertainment Industry Employees “Are Not Working”
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deadline.comBy Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor L.A. County Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger delivered eye-opening details from yesterday’s meeting of the Los Angeles County Economic Resiliency Task Force.
Barger called the results “sobering” “890,000 film and entertainment employees are not working,” said the supervisor, before noting the trickle down effect of those job losses to smaller supporting busnisses makes the impact of far greater.
On March 17, Deadline reported that IATSE estimated 120,000 of its members had lost their jobs. Entertainment is not the only hard-hit sector. “80 percent of jobs” in the restaurant industry have been lost, she said.
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