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Firefighters in rural Yukon say their gear is in desperate state, fire marshal's office underfunded

The Association of Yukon Fire Chiefs says the government of Yukon needs to invest more money in the Yukon Fire Marshal's Office so it can continue to adequately support the territory's fire services.



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Green Up the Planet Announces Fundraiser to Help Underfunded Schools Teach Students about the Environment

Dedicated nonprofit empowers students in at-risk and low-income schools through environmental education




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Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking and ambitions that far exceed its funding are among the problems facing NASA, according to a new report.




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US public health meets COVID-19 head-on: Pandemic squeezes long-underfunded public health system

Forty miles from the state capital, Jackson County, West Virginia, is home to about 29,000 people and 25 hospital beds. Like much of the state, the rural county is reeling from the opioid epidemic.




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Venezuela refugee crisis to become the largest and most underfunded in modern history

The Venezuelan refugee crisis is just about to surpass the scale of the Syrian crisis. As 2019 comes to a close, four years since the start of the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis, 4.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country, about 16 percent of the population. The figure is strikingly similar to the 4.8 million people that…

       




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Gun Violence Research Underfunded, Understudied in the United States

More than 30,000 people die each year from gun violence in the United States, a higher rate of death than any industrialized country in the world. Funding