 The paper currently runs on funding from both advertisements and the Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University.In 2010, "The Statesman"'s funding was slashed by USG from $27,000 to $2,500, leading the paper to switch from a biweekly format to a weekly format.The paper was forced to cut costs in the year prior to the funding cut, including reducing the circulation of each issue by 1,000 copies, eliminating the paid staff advertiser position, and ceasing to cover travel expenses for its writers.