Scholars eye freedom in reverse
91勛圖厙 researchers win USAID grant to examine backpedaling democracies
President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961, for the first time separating federal budgets for defense and non-defense spending and creating the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
The amount of money that is involved in the nonmilitary areas are a fraction of what we spend on our national defense every year, Kennedy said, and yet this is very much related to our national security and is as important dollar for dollar as any expenditure for national defense itself.
More than six decades later, USAID provides more than $20 billion annually less than 1 percent of the federal budget about a quarter of