How Almost Everyone Just Got Screwed In One Chart

[brentspeak]

http://front.moveon.org/how-almost-everyone-just-got-screwed-in-one-chart

[Armstead]

1. Kinda depressing.

[laconicsax]

2. Woo! Gobama!

:woohoo:

[Electric Monk]

3. 84 recs and counting

here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1726262

[former9thward]

4. I don't know about the rest of the chart but the NIH budget is off by a factor of 10.

The National Institutes of Health has a budget of 31.2 billion this fiscal year not 310 billion.

[brentspeak]

5. Looking it up -- you're right

http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm

NIH Budget

Research for the People

The NIH invests over $31.2* billion annually in medical research for the American people.

More than 80% of the NIH's funding is awarded through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 325,000 researchers at over 3,000 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state and around the world.

About 10% of the NIH's budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.