It was a hopeful sign that in the fiscal 2015 omnibus bill, Congress increased the study money for the Clipper — which will focus on Europa, Jupiter's icy moon with a possible life-bearing, subsurface ocean — from $15 million to $100 million.
For example, it cited the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, which disproportionately benefits working mothers; work-study money for community college students, 56 percent of whom are female; state aid supporting the jobs of teachers and nurses, who are mostly women; and Democratic opposition to privatizing Social Security, of which women make up 57 percent of beneficiaries.
I was outside of a church praying for a job, as my work-study money had run dry.
Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts plan to try this week to strip money for study into a new generation of smaller nuclear bombs from an Energy Department spending bill.
The second kind of resource is material resources, which refers to money for study or other physical goods.
In a value-for-money study, the Centre for Justice Innovation [pdf] found that the service cost £560,000 and made estimated savings of £1.29m for public bodies over five years, meaning that £1 spent on the service saved the public purse £2.30.
Other reported reasons for study participation included helping others, money, gratitude to the VA, or because of positive comments from a doctor, nurse, or clinician.
Over the years, he estimates, he has enrolled in more than twenty studies for money.
In a letter seen by the Guardian, the NAO's auditor general, Amyas Morse, told the Labour MP Helen Goodman, shadow minister for media and communications: "I intend to conduct a value-for-money study of Ofcom's recent auction of 4G spectrum".
The DfT's rail command paper was a response to Sir Roy McNulty's 2011 rail value-for-money study, which said UK railways were among Europe's most costly and the industry could save 20% to 30% by changing working practices.
