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...Because NIH grants not only create jobs for researchers but also frequently result in new products and treatments, funding for the NIH generates more than double its cost in economic output. This is exactly the sort of intelligent stimulus that Congress should be using to combat the current recession...
...public good that would not receive enough funding if left to private companies, so government support of such research is essential. In order to continue researching important treatments and keep America on the cutting edge of scientific development, Congress must continue to adequately fund institutions like the NIH...
Early in January, Harvard president Drew Faust, along with other members of the Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative, urged Congress to include increased funding for the NIH, the NSF, and other scientific research agencies in the stimulus package. They cited the job growth that additional funding would stimulate as well as the benefits funding for more research would create in the long-term. Congress’s positive response to this, and other appeals for more funding, is heartening...
Funding for the NIH and the NSF stagnated during the Bush administration, which, combined with the rising cost of research and inflation, resulted in a decrease in funding from 2003 until now. We applaud the Obama administration for reversing this disastrous trend and reaffirming the federal government’s support for scientific research...
...near future.” Democrats are hoping to ready a final version of the bill for President Barack Obama’s approval by the second week of February. Massachusetts, with its myriad research hospitals and universities, is the nation’s largest recipient of NIH funding per capita and is second only to California in overall funding. In 2007, Massachusetts received $2.2 billion in NIH funding—roughly 10 percent of NIH’s $22.8 billion spent on extramural research. Harvard received $1.4 billion, or 60 percent of the state’s allocation. Casey...