“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.” ImportantRealCountrySchoolSupportResearchPercentStressThreatDefenseEnormousBudgetsDepartmentEngineeringFunding Author:Charles M. Vest
“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.” FirstsChildrenSchoolChoicesNumbersAmountSixPercentFirst TimeProgramBiggerIncreaseFundingRepresentingSchool Choice Author:Clint Bolick
“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.” YearsLawThreeGivenNumbersAmountTaxesPercentCongressAdministrationAppropriatePlusFundingRequestApprovedMinus Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.” IfsHas BeensArtBodyAbleRiskTenComfortablePercentOrganizationProfitOperationsGrantsPensNinetyTranslationsSalaryFundingNicheSpecialists Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.” NeedsPayEducationCuttingResearchPercentMedicalWeatherSavingBudgetsSeniorFundingSavingsJust Do ItMedicareInspectorsMedical ResearchEducation Funding Author:Barack Obama
“Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.” EnoughPercentIncreaseSenatorsFundingMassachusettsGovernment FundingEducation Funding Author:George W. Bush