Stories Related to The Irony Of Stem Funding

Alanna Schubach, The Atlantic: Education
Tue, 01/12/2016 - 8:47am

The Irony of STEM Funding

Demonstrators participate in a "Rally for Medical Research," in April 2013, to focus on sequestration’s cuts to NIH's funding. Jacquelyn Martin / AP The $1.5 trillion spending measure that just passed in Congress is particularly good news for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will see its budget increase by $2 billion, or 6 percent, the largest increase in over a decade.

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