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Writers Guild Seeks Tax Breaks To Hire Women, Minority Writers

Ken Goodman

Many states including New York and Massachusetts use tax credits and other incentives to bring in TV and film productions, but what about the men and women who write the scripts and screenplays? An effort is under way in Albany to extend those tax breaks to film and TV writers in New York with an emphasis on women and minorities. Lowell Peterson is the executive director of the Writers Guild of America East, the organization lobbying for the tax credits.

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