PROVIDENCE -- Supporters of the University of Rhode Island say the university doesn't get enough state funding, particularly amid calls for a better educated, more competitive state work force. State financing per URI student has fallen by an inflation-adjusted 47-percent since 2002, one national report said last year.
State Sen. Dawson T. Hodgson, R-North Kingstown, raised the issue in a Jan. 3, 2012, radio interview on WPRO-AM.
Hodgson talked about the state budget as more than a financial document, but, rather, as a statement of values and priorities.
In that vein, he noted, "the amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."
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