If bake sales are out, "healthy" fund-raisers, like carwashes and balloon-o-grams, are in.
In an effort to limit how much sugar and fat students put in their bellies at school, the Education Department has effectively banned most bake sales, the lucrative if not quite healthy fund-raising tool for generations of teams and clubs.
HBOS, a big British bank with a healthy funding profile, watched its shares plummet on a single day in March as short-sellers fanned rumours that it was in trouble.
It points out that many states adopted their collective bargaining laws in order to put a stop to crippling strikes, and argues that unions need healthy funding levels in order to hire qualified staff who can handle such negotiations.
Unsurprisingly these are things the government is anxious to avoid.In America Norm Jones, an independent actuary, reckons that if the stockmarket does not return to pre-crisis levels in a few years states will have to make big contributions to restore their plans to healthy funding levels.
With more data produced daily and a healthy funding scene, the hiring trend in systems biology is likely to continue, believes Cases.
"[P]olicymakers should consider separating NIH's budget from the broader" battles over federal spending, urges the report, Healthy Funding: Ensuring a Predictable and Growing Budget for the National Institutes of Health.
Approved in 2007, the original COMPETES legislation committed the government to providing healthy funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, while also setting government-wide spending priorities to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
"In addition to a healthy funding ecosystem, we need a change in mindset – the government space agency should not see us as 'competition' but rather as allies," she says.
Stable, healthy funding for NASA yields strong tangible and intangible returns on investment and -- I believe -- is a priority for the future of our nation.
"We do have a healthier fund than you need to have," said Sheryl Hutchison, a spokeswoman for the State Employment Security Department.
