The Science Coalition Comments on the State of the Union Address

Jon Pyatt, 2014 president of The Science Coalition, made the following statement following President Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address:

We couldn’t agree more with the President’s statement that “the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow.”  We know that technological progress – much of it the result of federally funded basic scientific research – has driven America’s economic growth since World War II.