A compromise spending bill approved by Congressional negotiators on Tuesday sets the 2010 fiscal-year budgets for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts at $167.5-million each, a $25-million total increase over the appropriations for the two endowments in 2009. The National Endowment for the Arts appropriation is a 3.8-percent increase over the $161.3-million President Obama proposed in his budget, but the money for the National Endowment for the Humanities falls short of the $171.3-million the president proposed for the agency.
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One Response to Arts and Humanities Endowments to Get $167.5-Million Each in 2010
rrjohnso - October 28, 2009 at 4:07 pm
To paraphrase the old bumper sticker about school funding, “I will love it when the sciences have to have bake sales to do research.” NSF got 10 billion this year. NIH got 30 billion. NEH and NEA get a total of about 375 million. Is there a problem here? In the original proposal* for NSF in 1952, the document had a “Note of Warning.” The warning was that the proposers for scientific research (Vannevar Bush was the main author) said it would be “folly” if the sciences received a disproportionate share of federal funding in relation to funding given to the arts and humanities. Folly, indeed, has been the result. *The original proposal is right on the NSF web site, titled “The Endless Frontier.”