SCIENCETHE ATLANTIC
The Social Sciences Are in Trouble
The Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Science Foundation's budget in half and eliminating its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences division, which funds most U.S. social science research. The NSF's board was disbanded, and the SBE division's current budget is two-thirds smaller, with only five grants awarded this year compared to 250 in a typical year.
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