White House Proposed Cuts to Health Research: Loss to Harrisonburg and Rockingham
Account of how much Harrisonburg and Rockingham stand to loose from across-the-board cuts to National Health Institute
science impacts.org is a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. This shows a loss of $291,000 in Harrisonburg and $620,000 in Rockingham County.
On Feb. 7th, 2025, the White House ordered across-the-board cuts to NIH funded research. The order drastically reduces the amount that universities/hospitals/institutes receive for essential facilities, services, and staff required for health research. A group of data scientists have developed an interactive visualization of the impact of federal cuts to health research in communities nationally.
See National Interactive Chart: https://scienceimpacts.org
Irvin Peckham
Irvin Peckham grew up on a rural Wisconsin farm, earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, San Diego. He taught high school English for thirteen years and at the college level for twenty-five, serving as the writing program director at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and Louisiana State University. His primary hobbies are guitar, bikes, pickleballing, and writing.