US Foreign Aid

What Does The American Public Know About Aid?

Amie Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

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It's critical that our news media cover these issues in a way that touches people, and helps people to understand exactly what's happening in the countries, cities, villages, towns, health centers and homes of people around the world.

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Calling All Creatives to Tackle Foreign Aid

Nick Law | Posted 05.08.2012

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There is also a large disconnect about how much the public thinks is spent on aid, and the actual amount that is given. Our mission: to help judge and mentor a $1 million challenge to find fresh new ways of connecting people with the story of overseas aid.

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Flea-Markets and Foreign Aid: Things Aren't Always What They Seem

Rachel Cook | Posted 03.18.2012

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In 2010, the United States spent 20 percent of its budget on Defense and Security, as opposed to less than 1 percent on non-security related international assistance. This 1 percent is less than half of the foreign aid budget of the 1980s, and even less of earlier decades. What's the deal?

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Obama Administration Pushes Global LGBT Rights into the Limelight

Kevin Douglas Grant | Posted 02.05.2012

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The U.S. took a groundbreaking step on global LGBT rights Tuesday, joining the U.K. in tying foreign aid to governments' protection of sexual minorities and drastically raising the stakes in the increasingly globalized battle over gay rights.

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Global Health Investments: A Payoff for the U.S.

Chris Collins | Posted 12.26.2011

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All of us can agree that we need to spend our tax dollars as wisely as possible, and with that in mind we must recognize how important our global health investments are, providing security and diplomatic advantages to the United States.

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Not The America I Love

Richard Stearns | Posted 12.21.2011

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The very real needs of Americans pale in comparison to the needs foreign aid addresses. Poor families around the world are right now starving to death. If we cut American aid, we can be sure that millions will die.

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Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century

Sarah Trister | Posted 11.08.2011

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Howard Berman's bill is the first serious, comprehensive attempt at rewriting the foreign assistance act to make it appropriate for the 21st century.

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Why Is America Cutting Emergency Food Aid in the Middle of a Famine?

Ambassador Tony Hall | Posted 10.10.2011

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When I first visited Ethiopia at the height of the 1984 famine, I watched as twenty-four people died of starvation in less than fifteen minutes, right in front of my eyes.

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Why Western Aid Won't Save Somalia

Sarah Kenyon Lischer | Posted 10.09.2011

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The famine in East Africa must be viewed within the messy political context of regional politics in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Aid organizations and their recipients deserve physical protection rather than rhetorical support.

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Gambling With Our Foreign Policy Is a Losing Bet

Don Kraus | Posted 10.04.2011

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Great nations should pay their bills. But in the last two weeks, House Republicans voted to sharply decrease funding for international organizations, peacekeeping missions, and human rights, putting the United States back on the world community's "dead beat" list

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U.S. Foreign Assistance and the Arab Spring: Bold, but Not Bold Enough

Sarah Margon | Posted 07.31.2011

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The U.S. decision to relieve Egypt of up to $1 billion in debt is a step in the right direction, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the massive debt burden incurred by the previous regime.

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In Honor of Mother's Day, Here's One Petition Every Mother Should Sign

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 07.06.2011

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A new promotional video released last week by the non-partisan anti-poverty organization ONE raises some important questions about Americans' view of foreign assistance in the developing world.

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The War On Soft Power

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.14.2011

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Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress struggled until the 11th hour to agree on budget cuts that would avert a government shutdown. The ...

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Health Diplomacy Is Critical to U.S. Foreign Policy

Tommy G. Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Health diplomacy must be institutionalized as a critical component of U.S. foreign policy. Global health is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. It is the moral responsibility and strategic concern of every freedom-loving citizen of the world.

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Bill Gates: Americans Don't Know The Global Impact Of U.S. Generosity

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ordinary Americans are saving millions of lives worldwide every year -- they just don't know it yet. Global deaths by malaria have dropped from 1,000,...

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Less Lethal? Ask the Abu Rahmah Family

Josh Ruebner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israel's misuse of U.S.-supplied tear gas to suppress nonviolent Palestinian protest places it in violation of U.S. laws designed to prevent U.S. military aid from being misused to commit human rights abuses.

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US To Increase Help To Pakistan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. plans to increase aid to Pakistan in response to complaints from Pakistani officials that Washington doesn't understand th...

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Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although our lives have turned out different, I learned in my friend Charles "Chic" Dambach's exciting new book, Exhaust the Limits, that we have much...

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'D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution': Nicholas Kristof Celebrates Activists

Posted 05.25.2011

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In his recent article, "The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution," celebrated columnist Nicholas Kristof explores how individuals have taken international ai...

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Where's Haiti's Bailout?

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 05.25.2011

Six months after the earthquake, the plan for a "New Future for Haiti" (a "Haitian-led" effort being funded under World Bank oversight, through a commission whose members include only seven Haitians) seems remote indeed.

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Rebuilding Haiti: The Job Everybody and Nobody Wants

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

As civil society groups try to figure out where they fit into Haiti's quest for "development," movements for workers' rights are emerging as a counterweight to the aid agencies often associated with oppressive neo-imperialism.

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Foreign Aid Reform: Spaghetti, Leaks and Hope

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011

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For those who care about international development and global poverty reduction, for those who want to see the United States government reestablish it...

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Senate Budget Committee Sees Prevention of Global Crises as Secondary With 2011 International Affairs Budget

Samuel A. Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just when we're hearing that countries around the world have a renewed hope in American leadership on global issues, the Senate Budget Committee has a...

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Bono Calls Out Dem Senator Over Aid Cuts

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Add artist and activist Bono to the list of development leaders protesting the proposed cuts in foreign aid funding put forth by Senate Budget Committ...

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U.S. Foreign Aid May Entice Partners To Stay In Afghanistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pouring millions of dollars into equipment and training for its smaller partner nations in the Afghanistan war, a n...

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