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Choose to Invest FY 2022
Choose to Invest provides Congress, the Administration, and other interested stakeholders with funding recommendations and justifications for 45 poverty-focused accounts and programs covering development, democracy building, health, and humanitarian action in the international affairs budget.
Our recommendations mainly focus on the accounts funded by the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Bill. We also include recommendations safeguarding international food security in the Agriculture Appropriations Bill and international labor and health protections in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.
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