# Tweet by [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon) on 2019-07-05 20:41:37 > [!INFO] Archived from [original tweet](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/1147244163370573824) In reply to: [@Whatjamecallit](http://twitter.com/Whatjamecallit/status/1147233227502948352) @Whatjamecallit @EmmaKennedy @artemis0801 No SINCE 1948. So if you take the average funding increase from 1948 to 2018, the average increase is 3.7%, and probably doesn’t take into account inflation. What May is offering is an increase of 3.4%, so it’s LESS that expected.