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National Post
06-07-2025
- Politics
- National Post
After six decades, USAID closes its doors
After six-decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has been ended by the Trump administration.
New York Times
25-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Why Is World Hunger America's Problem?
Some readers are fed up with me! 'Don't guilt trip me' is a refrain I heard from many readers of my recent columns from West Africa and South Sudan about children dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid. Let me try to address the kinds of concerns critics have raised in Times comments and on social media: These may be tragedies, but they are not our tragedies. They are not our problems. I don't mean to sound cold-hearted, but we are not the world's doctor, and we can't end all suffering. True. We cannot save every dying child, or every mom hemorrhaging in childbirth. But our inability to save all lives does not imply that we should save none. A starving child on the brink of death can be brought back with a specialty peanut paste, Plumpy'Nut, costing just $1 a day. And the anemia that often causes women to hemorrhage and die in childbirth can be prevented with prenatal minerals and vitamins costing $2.13 for an entire pregnancy. Don't those seem reasonable investments? It's widely acknowledged that there were problems in American humanitarian aid. Why should American taxpayers, already strained and facing rising debt, have to foot the bill for dysfunction? I've followed the United States Agency for International Development for decades, and by far the worst dysfunction has been the chaos following U.S.A.I.D.'s dismantling this year. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Washington Post
23-06-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
In a rocky economy, one word stands out: Temporary
Elizabeth Glidden knows it could be worse. Although she recently lost her job as a technical program officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, she quickly found new work — a temporary position at the World Bank on the advice of a friend. Her job comes with a generous hourly rate but no benefits, including parental leave if she and her husband decide to expand their family. She's also paying more of each paycheck toward Social Security and Medicare tax because she's classified as self-employed.
New York Times
17-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Why a Teacher of the Year Is Giving His Prize Money Away
Good morning. It's Tuesday. We'll meet a Bronx high school teacher who just won a $25,000 award — and decided to put the money toward a teaching prize in Gambia when his hopes for a State Department grant fell through. We'll also find out about Senator Robert Menendez's 11-year prison sentence, which starts today. Alhassan Susso is a teacher at a high school in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx who has won numerous awards, including a national teacher-of-the-year prize in 2020. He has just been recognized again, this time with an award of $25,000. That money will now go to self-funding a project he is passionate about — a teacher-of-the-year prize in Gambia, where he is from — because his hopes for a grant from the State Department appear to have been dashed. For months, Susso had been preparing to submit an application for something called a public diplomacy grant through the U.S. Embassy in Banjul, the Gambian capital. Then, last month, the webpage with information about the grant program disappeared, Susso said. He had heard about the Trump administration's plans to lay off nearly the entire staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development, more than 9,700 employees. He figured that U.S.A.I.D. had something to do with administering the public diplomacy grants. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
It's the Republicans, Not Musk, Who Are Serious About Cutting Spending
Elon Musk and House Republicans both promised to tackle federal spending. As leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, he was the public face of Trump's assault on government. Remember him feeding the U.S. Agency for International Development into the wood chipper?
