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The Straits Times Article Rating

US pulls back $16 billion in funding to state health departments

Mar 27, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -56% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-15% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Senselessly ripping away this funding Congress provided will undermine our state's ability to protect families from infectious diseases like measles and bird flu and to help people get the mental health care and substance use treatment they need," Ms Murray said.
49% : The Illinois Department of Public Health and 97 local public health departments had US$125 million in funding pulled, money that had been allocated toward preventing and controlling emerging infectious diseases including measles and bird flu, Democratic Governor JB Pritzker's office said on March 26.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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