Here is a graph of the real funding numbers from the NIH report plotted by year. http://i.imgur.com/NvOmefN.png
The last three years actual funding dollars have gone down from the projected amount needed to keep funding levels from falling even further. http://imgur.com/siWChSX.png
Why aren’t we keeping up?
These are the top scientific minds in the United States asking an office of their government to fund life changing work –Literally, it’s the National Institutes of Health- and being told:
“We’d love to, but we don’t have the money.” By the people who print the money.
And its only going to grow. I'm a PhD student at a top 20 Public University and I want to know, why aren't we funding the NIH?