The word untenable has appeared in 290 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 27 in “Hollywood Has Not Recovered Jobs Lost During Strikes, Report Says” by Matt Stevens:
Experts and industry workers alike say that some combination of the pandemic, the strikes and the end of peak streaming have created an untenable situation for the workers who make up Hollywood’s middle class.
With such little work to go around over the last two years, writers, artists, set designers, camera operators and the many other people who power the industry have found side gigs or left Los Angeles entirely.
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