A group representing a multitude of business and education interests sent a letter to Congress and the White House Friday, warning that the nation’s “innovation deficit” will continue to grow if funding for university research and science education is not considered in negotiations over the government shutdown, sequester and debt limit… The federal shutdown has put a stop to some research, while delaying the approval and processing of future research grant requests. The federal government frequently sponsors research at universities through grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Both agencies are facing major furloughs — with three-fourths of NIH employees and almost all NSF employees considered “nonessential” in the shutdown. The letter warned that a lack of attention to the importance of science and research spending could have a long-term economic drag on the country.

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by Tyler Kingkade, The Huffington Post.

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