Ms. Collins said the budget "highlights the chronic and troubling underfunding" of grant programs for first responders.

We don't earn much by international standards, conditions of work are arduous, and chronic underfunding often makes them more so.

Nearly 20,000 Utah teachers boycotted classrooms today to protest what they say is chronic underfunding of one of the nation's most crowded public school systems.

This is a fantastically good result by our top universities, in the face of chronic underfunding and constant carping.

"The bad news is that we don't have an adequate pediatric delivery system, because of chronic underfunding for so many years."

But they said it is not nearly enough to offset the many years of neglect and chronic underfunding of children's mental health services.

He has introduced two landmark bills to increase access to early childhood education and reverse the chronic underfunding of child care.

A better explanation for failure, particularly on the service side, is chronic underfunding.

The responsibility lies four-square with the Government and its chronic underfunding of councils.

By the time the war brought the European Tarbut schools to an end, they had long been suffering from chronic underfunding.