NSF, NIST Budgets Get Hammered

News from Computing Research Policy Blog that the new omnibus appropriations bill will totally hammer the NSF and NIST. Effectively, factoring in some accounting and inflation, both budgets will be shrunk. So much for the America Competes Initiative. I've appropriately updated the probability that I will be employed in the next few years.

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so you recommend me,an EE graduate,not to enter Physics for graduate school?
:-/