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Foreign Aid Cuts

'Would You Like to Buy a Pen?' She Asked Me

Alan Grayson | Posted 04.20.2013 | Politics
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Alan Grayson

So here is one argument against the sequester that you're not hearing elsewhere -- it will cause a lot of pain. A lot of hunger, a lot of disease, a lot of death.

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No Time to Abandon Afghan Women

David Cortright | Posted 05.08.2012 | Impact
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David Cortright

Afghan women and girls have achieved significant social and economic gains over the last decade. These achievements must be protected as foreign troops begin to withdraw and political negotiations seek to end the war.

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Budget Cuts In Deal Hit Defense Spending, Foreign Aid

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 06.13.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Tea partyers insistent on cutting military spending and foreign aid will find plenty to like in the deal struck by President Barack...

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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 | Home
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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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