Outside U.S. Sen. McCormick’s Philly office, protesters decry academic funding cuts

Waving signs with slogans like “When Science Works, People Thrive,” more than 200 unionized graduate students, researchers, university faculty, and their supporters rallied on Wednesday in front of U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick's Philadelphia office. They decried the proposed federal funding cuts, which they said would decimate their institutions’ – and the nation’s – critical research while imperiling their livelihoods.