Funding and Staff
In 1972 when the agency was created, it had a budget of $34.7 million dollars and 786 staff members. By 2008 it had 401 employees on a budget of $43 million, but the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed in 2008 increases funding $136.4 million in 2014 with full-time employees to at least 500 by 2013.
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