Tag: Budget cuts
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers...
Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian G. Henning, Gonzaga University; Cara Poland, Michigan State University; Nathaniel M. Tran, University of Illinois Chicago;...
Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making...
Andrew Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University
Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation – and the...
Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while...
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
Over the past several days, NASA’s ambitious space exploration plans have experienced major setbacks....
Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
David S. Knight, University of Washington
CC BY-SAState and local tax dollars cover the bulk of U.S. public school funding.
The federal government spends just under...
In divided Alaska, the choice is between paying for government or...
Paola Banchero, University of Alaska Anchorage
Alaskans will soon confront the dramatic effects of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes of US$444 million from the state...
The GOP’s poor arguments for doubling down on SNAP’s work requirements
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
Republicans aim to tighten the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work requirements as part of the farm bill Congress is debating.
These...
California’s higher education: From American dream to dilemma
John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky
For the Golden State of California, 1960 was a golden year: It was a time of rapid development, when...
The bigotry baked into welfare cuts
Sanford Schram, CUNY Graduate Center
The budget blueprint the House of Representatives recently unveiled isn’t a carbon copy of President Donald Trump’s proposal, dubbed “A...
EXPLORING NATURE
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
