Senior Director of Engagement Strategy (@modernlanguage.bsky.social).
#HuMetricsHSS. Former: @SSRC_mtp, @NEH_ODH, @UMD_MITH, PhD English (UMD),
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Read that again. Adjusted for inflation, NEH’s budget would’ve been $600m had its 1970s funding levels just remained flat. Instead it has done incredible work at 1/3 the cost. Restore it and triple its budget.
Here are NEH appropriations adjusted for inflation. In real dollars, the agency's highest funding levels were over $600 million (2024 dollars) in the late 1970s and have been flat for the past 30 years. NEH staff have been excellent stewards of public funds, doing so much with increasingly less.
