Sentences with phrase «flat budgets»

That continues a trend of nearly flat budgets since 2003, just short of biomedical inflation.
Some agencies with even broader investigative mandates are also dealing with flat budgets.
The health and care system is facing a perfect storm of rising demand and costs up against flat budgets.
That's a big increase for an agency that for much of the past decade has had a mostly flat budget hovering at about $ 4 billion.
Included among them was SB 70, the education trailer bill that gives schools a relatively flat budget for next year - but with a big caveat looming in June.
And as Cuomo plans to run for re-election on a platform reducing taxes, Silver is likely to oppose any reduction in revenue after years of flat budgeting have lowered the quality of public services.
«At NIH, we're facing a period of relatively flat budgets,» Gottesman says.
«Every institute and center is working to ensure that the success rates of new investigators are not disproportionately affected by flat budgets,» he had written in Science in November.
• On Tuesday, Jeffrey Mervis reported that buried inside the White House's essentially flat budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a $ 2000 a year increase in stipends for the agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
... It is disingenuous to suggest that salary and benefit increases can't be covered within such an increase when state agencies have been absorbing such expenses within flat budgets since 2012.»
Those steps should include grants for water infrastructure upgrades and a boost in funding for the Department of Environmental Conservation after years of virtually flat budget increases.
Like many agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have a relatively flat budget if President Barack Obama has his way, with one notable exception.
Those fields would lose 16 % after lawmakers protect other scientific disciplines within a nearly flat budget
Sooner is the operative word here in the U.S., where flat budgets have made it hard for many aging experiments to continue.
The situation at NSF, which has seen flat budgets for several years, is much the same.
Policy for researchers with more than $ 1 million in funding meant to squeeze more grants from flat budget
That should help buffer researchers from an expected flat budget for NIH in 2011.
Because medical inflation has outpaced general inflation and NCI has had a relatively flat budget over much of the last decade, the institute's purchasing power has declined substantially.
A year ago I jumped on a plane and jet off to Morocco for 2 weeks with tons of plans and a pretty flat budget.
In a particularly dramatic example of this line of argument — which some have questioned — NIH Director Francis Collins has said that progress on an Ebola vaccine has been hindered by flat budgets.
Those peaks are interspersed with stretches of essentially flat budgets and punctuated with a dip from the 2013 sequester.
After years of flat budgets, U.S. scientists have been hoping for the federal government to boost their prospects in a rough economy.
«The governor's got money to spread around when it suits his interests, but localities get a flat budget that will absolutely mean more cuts in services and loss of jobs across the state,» Donohue said.
«And a flat budget is really a cut.»
«We really can't do any of the decadal survey with a flat budget,» Ulvestad said.
Many U.S. science agencies would have to make do with less under the president's 2006 budget request, which aims to cut the deficit, boost military and antiterrorism spending, and make tax cuts permanent President George W. Bush has proposed a flat budget for U.S. science next year.
In an ordinary year, a flat budget for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be considered dire news.
NSF spokesperson Dana Topousis, for example, told Next Wave that NSF planned to cope with a flat budget year by having each directorate prioritize «projects, so some new ones may not start or be delayed a year.
When the 109th Congress adjourned, hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding suddenly vanished, to be replaced by the CR's flat budgets, which actually translated into decreased purchasing power because of inflation and civil - service pay raises.
... Perhaps most troubling, research advocates say, the plan doesn't address the need to boost NIH funding after a decade of flat budgets — a trend that the 2016 budget proposal, rolled out this week, does little to change.»
«We're pleased to see that in an era of flat budgets, science is holding its own,» says Chris McEntee, executive director of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C.
The National Institutes of Health, for example, gets $ 30.3 billion for this year — a 3 % increase from last year, an essentially flat budget.
«It's the second year in a row that the Senate has slated the agency for a large increase after 12 years of flat budgets
But it does suggest that the likely worst - case scenario for the agency is a flat budget next year, as the Democratic - controlled Senate, which takes up the legislation next, generally supports increases for energy research.
What hope is there that, during a time of flat budgets, NIH will manage to implement new policies that, if they work as intended, will result in the transfer of research support away from established scientists and toward their younger colleagues?
A draft spending bill released today by a House of Representatives subcommittee would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a flat budget of $ 30.6 billion in 2013.
CDC's flat budget is due to unspent flu money.
Others note that the sting of a flat budget, if it comes to pass, will be mitigated by the fact that this year's Office of Science budget was pretty good.
The Administration also «strongly opposes» a flat budget for NASA's efforts to develop commercial launch vehicles for its astronauts.
Despite working with a flat budget, Tjian has managed to launch a range of initiatives, including new support for early - career scientists who have been hurt by declining budgets at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Moreover, grants at NINDS and other institutes have been trimmed for several years due to flat budgets, so labs have already been tightening their belts.
Earlier this fall, the Senate passed a spending bill that would have cut NSF's budget by $ 161 million, and a House of Representatives spending panel this summer embraced a flat budget.
And in contrast to those hopeful goals, there remains one harsh reality: Beyond the early 2020s the proposal forecasts a flat budget for NASA that would not increase with inflation — effectively acting as a reduction in purchasing power and thus a budget cut each year.
Most Institutes and Centers would have flat budgets.
The U.S. governmental bilateral program the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has had a flat budget since 2009.
These changes (including the new preliminary proposal requirement, a switch to an annual deadline, and a cap on the number of proposals that PIs can submit per cycle) were made to protect the integrity of the merit review system, which was increasingly compromised by steep increases in proposal submissions, diminished participation of the community in the proposal review process, and flat budgets.
After many years of flat budgets, these labs are ramping up to develop new electricity sources, trying to build more - efficient cars and addressing climate change.»
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