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The field has historically been underfunded, accounting for less than 5% of national healthcare spending in 2022, according to the Milbank Memorial Fund, a national nonprofit focused on population health and health equity.

In the wake of the fire, which destroyed nearly 7,000 structures and killed 12 people, both Crowley and the firefighters union described the department as severely underfunded.

The city’s firefighter union has long argued that the department is woefully underfunded.

"No teacher wants to take strike action, but there is nothing as disruptive, actually at the moment, as an underfunded education system."

The institutions monitoring, treating, researching and informing us about disease are now either broken, underfunded or pushing misinformation.