Morning Briefing

"I suggest that GOP presidential candidates apply ... personal finance principles to evaluate why foreign aid is worth the investment," Samuel Worthington, president of InterAction, writes in a CNN opinion piece. He says foreign aid is "like an insurance premium" because it is a small portion of the federal budget but "small cash outlays can prevent major expenses later," such as investing in food security to prevent famine. Small investments now will help "today's aid recipients [become] tomorrow's consumers of American exports," which helps support domestic jobs, he writes.