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stat_array[0] = 'Employment in high-wage creative occupations is expected to add around 855 jobs by 2014.';

stat_array[1] = 'In 2006, arts audiences spent more than $151.5 million above and beyond the cost of admission.';

stat_array[2] = 'Creative industries generate revenues of $2 billion and a payroll of nearly $1 billion every year.';

stat_array[3] = 'There are over 111 non-profit arts & culture organizations in our region.';

stat_array[4] = '6.25 million people attended an arts event last year. Nearly a quarter of them were visitors.';

stat_array[5] = 'There are 1,500 firms and a total of 14,000 employees in Creative fields in Portland.';

stat_array[6] = 'In the US, nearly 68% of authors and more than half of artists and photographers are self-employed.';

stat_array[7] = 'The nonprofit arts and culture sector represents a $318.26 million industry in the Portland metropolitan area, one that supports 10,321 full-time equivalent jobs.';

stat_array[8] = 'In a recent survey of businesses, 56% make at least one quarter of their revenues on products and services that didn’t exist 5 years ago.';

stat_array[9] = 'The average salary in the creative industries is $66,663 compared to the regional average wage of $40,639.';

stat_array[10] = '95% of area voters believe that arts education is vital to the future success of our children.';

stat_array[11] = 'Over this past year, workplace giving to the Work for Art program has grown by 510%.';

stat_array[12] = 'Our region spends $2.31 per person in public support of the arts every year. Las Vegas spends $10.72.';

stat_array[13] = 'More than half of the state's graphic design firms are concentrated in the Portland metro area.';

stat_array[14] = '89% of area voters believe that arts and culture are important to the growth and development of the community.';

stat_array[15] = '72% attend an arts and culture event at least once every few months.';

stat_array[16] = 'In the past ten years, grant applications to the Regional Arts & Culture Council have increased 67% while the funding available has remained basically flat.';

stat_array[17] = 'The average nonprofit arts organization nationally receives 3.8% of its budget from a local arts council. Our region provides less than half that.';

stat_array[18] = 'As of November 2006, there were just and 34 art, music, dance & drama instructors for all 22,082 Portland Public elementary school students.';

stat_array[19] = '83 percent of people earning $150,000 or more have had a music education.';


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