claim: when it comes to aid, "the united states is still about half as what european countries give as a percentage."
author: bono
evidence_1: oct 18, 2016 ... unsurprisingly, more than half the respondents thought the united states was  spending too much on foreign aid. ... actually, only about half the security  assistance budget is provided by the dod. ..... however, the united states gives  less as a percentage of its gross national income than other countries.
evidence_2: sep 9, 2015 ... with europe tussling over who is doing more to help refugees in the current crisis , we decided to take a look who gives the most... and the least. ... aid in terms of  percentage of gni was the united arab emirates (a non-dac country), and it sent  1.17% of its national income to development aid, after providing ...
evidence_3: jan 5, 2015 ... but the list should still give you a sense of how far behind america's poor are  compared with their counterparts in other affluent countries. at the 10th percentile , for instance, norwegians have almost 60 percent more income than americans.  (their data may only be good through 2004, but the country is ...
evidence_4: united states foreign aid is aid given by the united states government to other  governments. the term generally does not include either money from private  charitable organizations based in the united states, personal giving, or  remittances. it is sometimes divided into two broad categories: military aid and  economic ...
evidence_5: u.s. teens are two and a half times as likely to give birth as compared to teens in  canada, around four times as likely as teens in germany or norway, and ...  among more developed countries, russia has the next highest teen birth rate  after the united states, but an american teenage girl is still around 25 percent  more likely ...