unfunded
adjective
un·fund·ed
ˌən-ˈfən-dəd 
1
: not funded : floating
an unfunded debt
2
: not provided with funds
unfunded schools
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And across the bay in Berkeley, the city’s unfunded infrastructure is expected to be $2.1 billion by the end of this fiscal year.
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Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
The Humane Society has roughly $10 million in programs and requirements that go unfunded each year, officials said.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
The state's largest teachers union fears that SB 1 could become an unfunded mandate for schools, possibly causing strain on third grade teachers.
—Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
About $950 million of that budget reserve money would go toward unfunded liabilities within the state teachers, employees and police pension funds.
—Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
According to a Council of State Governments report, at the state level alone taxpayers face $1.3 trillion of unfunded liabilities from government employee pension systems.
—Carlos Curbelo, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
The retirement systems, which have about $142 billion of unfunded liabilities, are set to reach 90% funding by 2045 thanks to a 1994 law.
—Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2024
Having failed properly to save for pensions for public-sector employees for more than seven decades prior to 2010, Connecticut has more than $37 billion in unfunded pension obligations, according to the administration’s budget office.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
One wrinkle here is that Congress can sidestep a shutdown by passing a continuing resolution that takes those unfunded agencies and extends their funding at 2023 fiscal year funding until full appropriations bills pass, or those continuing resolutions expire.
—Rebecca Kaplan, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
The Humane Society has roughly $10 million in programs and requirements that go unfunded each year, officials said.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
The state's largest teachers union fears that SB 1 could become an unfunded mandate for schools, possibly causing strain on third grade teachers.
—Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
About $950 million of that budget reserve money would go toward unfunded liabilities within the state teachers, employees and police pension funds.
—Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
According to a Council of State Governments report, at the state level alone taxpayers face $1.3 trillion of unfunded liabilities from government employee pension systems.
—Carlos Curbelo, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
The retirement systems, which have about $142 billion of unfunded liabilities, are set to reach 90% funding by 2045 thanks to a 1994 law.
—Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2024
Having failed properly to save for pensions for public-sector employees for more than seven decades prior to 2010, Connecticut has more than $37 billion in unfunded pension obligations, according to the administration’s budget office.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
One wrinkle here is that Congress can sidestep a shutdown by passing a continuing resolution that takes those unfunded agencies and extends their funding at 2023 fiscal year funding until full appropriations bills pass, or those continuing resolutions expire.
—Rebecca Kaplan, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
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“Unfunded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfunded. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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