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5 Steps to Defend Higher Ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education - June 3, 2025

How to stand up for academe in this era of constant attacks from federal and state governments.

Mapping Federal Cuts

NPR/WBUR Here and Now - May 7, 2025
Abby Andre, a former Department of Justice attorney, now a doctoral fellow at Ohio State University, has created an online map to track the impacts of government cuts.The Impact Map provides data on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect across the country.

Documenting Trump's 'Arbitrary' Cuts to Science

Inside Higher Ed  - May 6, 2025

The Trump administration has canceled close to $3 billion in NIH and NSF research grants, often without much explanation. Now researchers are crowdsourcing databases of suspended grants to shed light on what’s being lost.

What do New York, Georgia and Washington state have in common?

Federal News Network - April 25, 2025

In conversation, we often equate the federal government with Washington D.C., but a new online tool shows just how broadly government operations extend across the country. The Impact Project’s online map shows the distribution of federal employees, facilities and contracts down to congressional districts.

100 Days of Trump: Forced Out Federal Workers

MSNBC - May 1, 2025
Stephanie Ruhle and Jacob Soboroff host a town hall with forced out federal workers during President Trump's first 100 days of his second term. The impact project's online map shows the distribution of federal employees, facilities, and contracts down to congressional districts.

Former federal worker from Ohio launches map tracking government cuts

91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio - April 8th 2025

A former federal worker from Ohio is creating an online map to track the impacts of government cuts. Abby Andre is an Ohio State University Ph.D. student who worked as a Department of Justice attorney from 2010 to 2019.