Tuesday marked the last day for USAID, the foreign aid program created by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 with help from a prominent Mainer.

L ast month marked the 75th anniversary of the launch of the Marshall Plan — by any reasonable metric, the most successful aid program in history, as well as the most celebrated of all American ...

The Marshall Plan gave economic aid to Europe and forged an alliance against the USSR 75 years ago. The Russia-Ukraine war is testing its legacy.

The Marshall Plan was such a success that it inspired President Harry S. Truman to create the Four Point Program, which gave technological and economic aid to developing countries.

So urgent were the humanitarian needs that Marshall would later propose an interim aid program to precede the Marshall Plan. This stopgap aid of food and other materials for Austria, Italy and ...

While this sum is extraordinary, it is on par to the 2% of GDP spent on the original Marshall Plan at the end of World War II. But what a difference a near-century makes.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chief of Staff George Marshall was born on this day in history, Dec. 31, 1880. He's best known for his development of the Marshall Plan following World War II.