Democratic members of Congress Ted Lieu of California and Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico introduced new legislation on Thursday that would create a $60 million Federal Writers Project bill. To be administered by the Department of Labor, the bill would provide money to nonprofits, libraries, news outlets and communications unions in an effort to create jobs and support to writers suffering from income losses because of the pandemic. The legislation is inspired by the 1935 Federal Writers’ Project of the New Deal Era, which, at its peak, provided employment to 6,000 writers. In addition to making jobs, the representatives […]
