The Return of the Sequester Wary of the cuts on the horizon, agencies appear to already be slowing funding. On campus, researchers are seeing a slowdown in federal grant-making and disbursement, said Tim Leshan, vice president for government relations at Northeastern University and president of the Science Coalition, an association of research universities advocating for federal scientific research. The Institute […]
Sequester the Drug War: Drug Control Spending and the Opportunity to Stop Throwing Good Money After Bad With the squeeze of the sequester increasingly palpable across the country and the battle over next year’s budget unfolding on Capitol Hill, there is no better time for a sober, bipartisan and data-driven conversation about our spending priorities. One area where dismal return on investment dictates fundamental change is the “war on drugs.” By slashing […]