Winning Support for NIH
January 29, 2016
1/27/16 – Congress recently gave a $2 billion raise to the National Institutes of Health, with no small help from a Republican congressman who worked to convince his conservative colleagues that embracing medical research was a fiscally responsible thing to do. On a similar note, a policy analyst has argued in Issues that the agency can work most effectively and maintain broadest support by linking the creation and dissemination of knowledge with the power of research in boosting economic growth.