government funding
State-provided money
Government funding is money provided by a government to support programs, institutions, or initiatives.
It flows to public services, research, nonprofits, and private enterprises through grants, contracts, subsidies, and allocations: The project lost its government funding after budget cuts.
Debates about government funding often center on which activities merit public investment versus private financing.
- earmarksDesignates for specific use
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
- research grantsMoney awarded for studies
- tax revenueGovernment's collected funds
- loansBorrowed money arrangements
subsidies · fellowships · defense spending · discretionary spending · sequestration · matching funds · scholarships · Medicare · social safety net · pork barrel · taxpayer dollars · infrastructure investment · contracts · tax incentives · programs · municipal bonds · rainy day fund · federal
- federal budgetfederal budget, appropriations, deficit, national budget, surplus
- public financepublic debt, budget deficit, tax revenue, budgets, expenditure
- theater financebox office, ticket sales, ticket prices, ticket pricing, producers
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
- Academic Opportunitiesscholarships, grants, fellowships, internships, postdocs
government fundingprivate investment
Funding outside public markets
private funding · venture capital · private equity · angel investment · crowdfunding
government fundingprivatization
State sells public assets
deregulation · fiscal conservatism · neoliberalism · austerity · free market
government fundingtaxation
Compulsory government revenue collection
government revenue · tax collection · budget cuts · defunding · divestment