On a per capita basis, the Rochester labor market receives the greatest amount of NIH funding in the U.S. The negative effect of cuts to NIH funding could be large in this market; the cuts could result in thousands of job losses. ADVERTISEMENTIf Rep. Finstad wants to continue to represent his district, he needs to take strong leadership on this point. Finstad needs to take up this issue. It is shameful that Finstad’s predecessor, whose job he took after he died of cancer, came to Mayo Clinic for state-of-the-art care and now Finstad is abandoning that cause.