The article features the signing of 54 US senators of a letter urging congressional appropriators to increase funding for nursing workforce development programs from $150 million in the current fiscal year to $175 million in fiscal year 2007. Eighty two percent of applicants for the Nurse Education Loan Repayment Program and ninety eight percent for the Nursing Scholarship Program in fiscal 2005 were turned away by the Health Resources and Services Administration due to insufficient funding.
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