Most Americans like science — and are willing to pay for it
Once people know how little the U.S. spends on science, they support more funding

U.S. taxpayer dollars go to fund science projects from weather tracking to duck monitoring. But most people have no idea how much — or rather, how little — government money goes to scientific research.
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