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Cuts to Indirect Federal Grants Could Change Research for the Better

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Cuts to Indirect Federal Grants Could Change Research for the Better
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Jason Sorens
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On Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant funding that goes to overhead, or “indirect costs,” to 15 percent across the board.
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Jason Sorens
Jason Sorens
Author
Jason Sorens is senior research faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), co-author of “Freedom in the 50 States,” and founder of the Free State Project.