Actors' Equity Association has released the following statement after the Associated Press has named the Biden/Harris ticket winners of the 2020 election.
"Joe Biden will be the most consequential president for the arts industry in a generation," said Mary McColl, executive director of Actors' Equity Association. "At a time when live entertainment is still largely dark because of the coronavirus, we will finally have a partner in the White House who will create a national strategy to bring the pandemic under control and put everyone in the arts back to work. Until then, we need to reinstate pandemic unemployment so that displaced workers can pay their bills, increase arts funding and finally pass a COBRA subsidy to make health insurance affordable as unemployment stretches on."
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