About 100 National Endowment for the Humanities employees to be laid off: union
"A major agency restructuring is underway without the appropriate planning needed to ensure the continuity of operations," the local said in a statement. "These drastic changes ... represent an existential threat to those institutions and individuals who rely on support from NEH to research, preserve, and interpret our shared heritage."
The NEH did not respond to a request for comment. Less than 60 employees are expected to remain. The agency has a 207 million U.S. dollars budget to fund humanities programs such as history, law, literature, philosophy, and linguistics.
In early April, NEH terminated more than 1,000 existing grants, including one for the National History Day competition and grants for state humanities councils in all 50 states. The agency has already quietly posted that roughly half of its funding opportunities will not be offered in the next fiscal year or will no longer be offered at all, reported USA Today about the development.
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