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US midterm elections: Deficit poses threat to science

Nature volume 467, pages 760–761 (2010)Cite this article

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Research programmes in the United States seem to be heading for a cliff, no matter who wins in Congress.

Unlike their counterparts elsewhere, US scientists have been sitting pretty in the wake of the global economic downturn. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or stimulus bill, pumped an extra US$31 billion into science, and President Barack Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2011 included generous increases for several science-funding agencies.

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