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and Inclusion,” he says.“ Some of our programs for Medicaid pay 90 percent; we pay 10. If they were to cut that to 50-50, that is hundreds of millions of dollars that we will not be able to make up— and it threatens the whole health care system.”
Karen Dockery worries that her sixteen-year-old daughter, Shannon, severely autistic with a host of medical issues, will be one of the casualties. Medicaid pays for much of Shannon’ s care and education at Pathways Strategic Teaching Center in Warwick. School officials have so far assured Dockery that they will not cut back on her services,“ which is great. But how much can they stick to that?” she asks.“ What’ s actually going to happen is another story. If they have to cut back on staff, not only do I worry about compromising her learning, but even more so— her safety.”
The University of Rhode Island, with $ 146 million in awards in fiscal year 2024— more than 80 percent from federal sources— lost $ 48.1 million in a matter of weeks. These investigations fulfilled specific research requests from the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Defense and Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation and USAID. Awarded via a national competition, these grants explored plant and animal health, port security, hurricane readiness, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and workforce training in partnership with General Dynamics Electric Boat to build the next generation of submarines.
“ These things are really important to our society, that the public cares about,” says Bethany Jenkins, URI vice president for research and economic development.“ In some cases, people have lost their livelihoods; in others, people are taking salary reductions. The university is scrambling to keep students funded on other sources so they can finish their degrees. And we have had to be the people notifying our colleagues that their work was getting cut. That is a really hard thing to do and it takes its toll on a community.”
In early spring, Pamela Davis, owner of Eclectic Energy, a Wakefield gift shop, was a queasy rider on the roller-
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