Budget Includes Fishing Lessons, Moon Shot

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 26, 2009 7:00 PM CST
Budget Includes Fishing Lessons, Moon Shot
Copies of President Obama's budget for fiscal 2010 are seen at the U.S. General Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A $3.6 trillion budget is bound to have nooks and crannies. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the lesser publicized aspects of President Obama's plan:

  • Interior Department gets $50 million to teach young people how to hunt and fish and generally love the environment.
  • NASA gets a 14% increase to $19.7 billion, enough to return an astronaut to the moon by 2020.

  • A Social Innovation Fund would be created to "invest in the next generation of social entrepreneurs." The amount is unspecified, but the federal Corporation for National Community Service gets a 30% jump to $1.13 billion.
  • To encourage private donations to expand national parks, the budgets sets aside $25 million in matching funds.
(More President Obama stories.)

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