Higher Education
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Nirvani Williams
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The Trump administration has proposed regulations to control billions of dollars in federal research funding, which it says will reduce "fraud and abuse." Scientists in Massachusetts and beyond say they could set back research in the U.S. by decades.
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We take a hard look into higher education and its economic impacts in Massachusetts.
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