Underfunding in a sentence

But she does hold the federal government accountable for chronic underfunding that has affected generations, and makes it difficult for First Nations communities to grow in size.

Conservative education spokesman Liam Kerr said: “The SNP’s unacceptable underfunding of Scottish higher education means that our universities are becoming ever more dependent on tuition fees from international students.

Conservative governments’ neglect and underfunding of public services have harmed the economy and everyone’s the poorest they’ve ever felt.

Coupled with decades of underfunding, an overload of paper documents has prevented the agency from processing tax forms at a faster pace in years past, agency leaders have said.

Law Society president Lubna Shuja said: “The Government has failed to satisfactorily address the serious concerns we raised about the collapse of the criminal legal aid sector following years of chronic underfunding.

Mr Nowak, who took up the general secretary position at the end of last month, told Sunak that public services are suffering after years of “underfunding and understaffing”, according to reports.

The council claimed that underfunding and staff shortages were the cause of the ‘Requires Improvement’ grade - which is why they have since invested heavily in the service.

The Federal Court approved a landmark $23-billion class-action lawsuit settlement last month to compensate more than 300,000 First Nations children and their families for chronic underfunding of on-reserve child-welfare services.

But that money is drying up this year, and CPS once again faces deficits caused by historic underfunding.

David Cameron’s “big society” projects were always undermined by extreme underfunding, but the whole model presumes that public services don’t really require rigorous thought or skills.

Decades of underfunding, lack of resources, and teacher shortages have resulted in a decline in educational standards and opportunities.

For example, chronic underfunding of the Indian Health Service, a federal agency meant to provide free health care for Native populations, makes it difficult and expensive for Native patients to access timely care.

He admitted the council was seeing “chronic underfunding from the Tories” but said this had been compounded by “Labour mismanagement”.

Last month, Cllr Brown said the council and others are "facing very difficult times" due to long term underfunding, recent inflation and high demand for services.

The NHS, created after World War II to provide free healthcare to all, is a shadow of its former self, weakened by years of underfunding and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Underfunding is only part of the issue; there are worries that school buildings can't support ASN pupils.

Underfunding the NHS over the past 14 years is down to Westminster so we need an MP that will fight for fairer funding for Wales in order to make the changes needed.

Women continue to face significant challenges of access to contraception and abortion due to chronic underfunding of specialist services.

Dr Rinesh Parmar, chair of the Doctors’ Association UK, which campaigns for improved working conditions for doctors, warned the latest figures came as a “direct result of years of underfunding”.

Due to decades of privatisation and underfunding, the system is a jigsaw puzzle of different private providers who cannot string a strategy together between them and often compete for the same contracts.