More Pork In The Barrel For IHEs

Congress set aside a record $2.3 billion in pet projects for colleges and universities last year for research on subjects like berries and reducing odors from swine and poultry. Despite recent calls in Congress for a moratorium on the home state projects, known as earmarks, the sum was $300 million more than the last time, in 2003, when the total was $2.01 billion. When the Chronicle of Higher Education first analyzed earmarks in 1990, legislators set aside $270 million for colleges and universities. Congress approved 2,306 earmarks last year for higher education, compared with 223 in 1990. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/washington/24earmarks.html