{"id":10328,"date":"2019-08-01T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2019-07-31T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T01:39:13","slug":"governor-baker-signs-fy20-budget-boosting-cultural-funding-12-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/news\/governor-baker-signs-fy20-budget-boosting-cultural-funding-12-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Baker Signs FY20 Budget Boosting Cultural Funding by 12%!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great News!<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The state’s FY20 budget, signed into law by Governor Baker today, increases the Mass Cultural Council’s budget from $16mil to $18mil, the highest state appropriation since 2002!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the Governor for joining the Legislature in this strong endorsement of the power of culture in making Massachusetts the great place that it is for those who live, work, and create here, and for visitors from around the world,\u201d said Nina Fialkow<\/strong>, Mass Cultural Council Chair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Read more in the Mass Cultural Council’s July 31, 2019, PRESS RELEASE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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See also:<\/p>\n

Celebrating a New Budget<\/a>
\nby Anita Walker, MCC Executive Director<\/h4>\n
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We are over the moon with joy that our elected leaders saw fit to substantially increase the financial resources available for this work by $2 million to a total of $18 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Great News! The state’s FY20 budget, signed into law by Governor Baker today, increases the Mass Cultural Council’s budget from $16mil to $18mil, the highest state appropriation since 2002! \u201cWe thank the Governor for joining the Legislature in this strong endorsement of the power of culture in making Massachusetts the great place that it is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[144,133,33,14,35,18],"class_list":["post-10328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-news","tag-144","tag-artists","tag-cultural-workforce","tag-malc","tag-mass-cultural-council","tag-massachusetts"],"yoast_head":"\nGovernor Baker Signs FY20 Budget Boosting Cultural Funding by 12%! • MALC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/news\/governor-baker-signs-fy20-budget-boosting-cultural-funding-12-percent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor Baker Signs FY20 Budget Boosting Cultural Funding by 12%! • MALC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Great News! 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