Paul Basken, Chronicle of Higher Education
March 5, 2014
The Obama administration, constrained by spending caps imposed by
Congress, suggested on Tuesday a federal budget for 2015 that would mean
another year of cuts in the government’s spending on basic scientific
research.
The budget of the National Institutes of Health, the largest provider
of basic research money to universities, would be $30.4-billion, an
increase of just $200-million from the current year. After accounting
for inflation, that would be a cut of about 1 percent. Read more
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