Li Jackson writes, “I have been in the events and exhibits industry for almost 20 years now. We survived 9/11 and the dot.com bubble recession in 2001, the 2008 global financial crisis with the banks, and now the 2020 economic crisis due to the pandemic, which according to BBC News is the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression in the 1930s. According to a study by Go LIVE Together, a new association that advocates for legislation to assist in the events industry recovery, our industry represents about 6.6 million jobs and approximately $885 billion of business sales.â€
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