In the Guardian's "Poverty Matters" blog, Sarah Jane Staats, director of the Center for Global Development's Rethinking Foreign Assistance Initiative, compares the foreign assistance positions of President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "The U.S. presidential campaign has been more about saving jobs at home than saving lives abroad," but "America's role in the world was center stage at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York last week, where President Barack Obama decried modern slavery and Mitt Romney unveiled his vision for foreign assistance," she writes. "The surprise: so far, Romney sounds a lot like Obama on foreign aid," she continues.