Congress’ failure so far to deliver on promise of tens of billions in new research spending threatens America’s long-term economic competitiveness
- Written by Jason Owen-Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Science is again on the chopping block on Capitol Hill.
AP Photo/Sait Serkan GurbuzFederal spending on fundamental scientific research is pivotal to America’s long-term economic competitiveness and growth. But less than two years after agreeing the U.S. needed to invest tens of billions of dollars more in basic research than it had been, Cong...