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#1

WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion

Heard this on the news this morning, so I googled it and found this article (evidently it's over a month old, but the morning news decided to air it today).

The WGA strike will cost the California economy a projected 37,700 jobs and $2.1 billion in lost output through the end of 2008, according to a report from the Milken Institute.
Ugh
"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'
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re: WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion

We know people who lost their homes, some who lost their jobs and a couple who lost their independent businesses. The effect was much more far-reaching than people realized - things I never would have associated with the industry, but are actually dependent on it's survival.

Very scary - but also the reason that most people view the bottom line here VERY seriously.
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Updated On: 1/22/09 at 01:08 PM

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re: WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion

I am feeling it. I lost 1/3 of my yearly income for the shop during that strike. Luckily I had some display work to do to tide me over otherwise I would be in a cardboard box underneath the Brooklyn Bridge just feet from that "FABULOUS" 15.5 million dollar waterfall!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

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