The departments of Commerce and Cultural Resources don’t have good news to report on the jobs front, so they’re making it up. With the financial sector shrinking, the state government now finds that creative jobs are more plentiful than banking jobs. That means redefining “creative” workers to include the teenager at the concession stand of your local multiplex.
Expect Linda* Carlisle, secretary of cultural resources, to ignore the inflated numbers as she uses the taxpayer-funded report to seek more taxpayer dollars for arts groups, create cultural districts across the state, and carve out new sales-tax breaks for handcrafted goods.
I wonder if all the work related to this report was considered creative.
* corrected name
