After a weekend watching Capitalism: A Love Story, having been "on the market" for a few months, I'm starting to wonder more critically about the bigger picture for the cultural industry around the country. This article discusses a local arts council's partnership with Americans for the Arts to understand the impact of non-profit arts organizations and their audiences on local economies.

Along this line, you may be familiar with Providence's rebranding as The Creative Capital. In addition to Rhode Island's high unemployment rate (which is having a difficult impact on youth), it often *feels* like Providence is saturated with educated and artistic people who will work for free or low pay in strides towards professional development, and that this is a contributing factor both to the activities and production of an artistic community, and to the lack of development of full-time, benefited employment opportunities in the arts. If it weren't for lack of universal healthcare it might be plausible to cobble together a few part-time positions, but at things are, in order to live in the Cultural Capital, as an arts professional I find myself looking more and more in the for-profit sector.