Sequestration is not a smart strategy for reducing the deficit, say small business leaders

More than two-thirds (67 percent) of small business leaders say basic research funded by the federal government is important to private sector innovation, according to a new nationwide survey of small business owners/operators commissioned by Research!America. In addition, nearly half (45 percent) say medical research funding to universities and other non-governmental research institutions should not be cut as part of sequestration, and a plurality (40 percent) say that such across-the-board cut…

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/r-s…