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The President’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget was released two months later than usual and generally was positive, requesting increases that go beyond restoring the FY13 cuts.The road to achieving these increases will be a difficult one with Democrats and Republicans being far apart on fiscal policy.

Weeks before President Obama released his FY14 budget request and six months into the fiscal year, Congress finalized the FY13 budget. For the most part, the budgets for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and federal statistical agencies are their FY12 budgets reduced by the sequestration cut of 5.1%. The cuts will mean fewer and smaller grants for NIH and NSF and program cuts, hiring freezes, and reduced travel for the federal statistical agencies.

The Statistics2013 video contest winners have been chosen, with high-schooler Jason T. Girouard taking home the top prize for Best Overall Video.

Have you ever considered being an editor for a statistics magazine? Here’s your CHANCE.