Sentences with phrase «decade of underfunding»

«For too long Alberta's public services have been strained from decades of underfunding and reliance on volatile energy markets,» said contributing economist Robin Shaban, who noted that Alberta has just seen the worst recession in over three decades.

Antonia Lasicki, director of the state Association For Community Living, says housing programs face a financial breaking point after decades of underfunding.

United for Medical Research, a Washington, D.C. — based lobbying group, says «this meaningful increase for NIH makes real progress toward catching up from the past decade of underfunding and keeping up with scientific advancements and public health needs.»

Decades of underfunding teachers» pensions have also left Illinois with large unfunded pension liabilities that absorb resources that could otherwise be invested directly in classrooms.

Six million children under the age of 18 attend public schools — including 600,000 in charter schools — while nearly 3 million students are enrolled in the state's storied higher education system, which is still struggling to recover from decades of underfunding.

And then parallel to all of that, there are decades of underfunding, so they live in a context with a housing crisis, they live in a context with... research shows between 50 to 72 per cent food insecurity where that's measured by them skipping meals or missing meals etcetera.»