NEW: Congress reaches spending agreement that includes $25 million for gun violence research—the first funding in more than 20 years to study a problem that kills 40,000 people annually.
7 min readFederal agencies will be allotted $25M to study gun violence in a government spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators.Congress has reached a spending agreement that includes $25 million for gun violence research, the first funding in more than 20 years to study a problem that killsThe money will be split evenly between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
"It's biggest amount that the federal government has ever put into federal firearms research," Rosenberg noted."It signals an end to the drought of knowledge about preventing this significant problem.""Given violence and suicide have a number of causes, the agreement recommends the CDC take a comprehensive approach to studying these underlying causes and evidence-based methods of prevention of injury, including crime prevention," the bill states.
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