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Bill Gates Says He Should Have to Pay 'Significantly Higher' Taxes - During the interview, Gates was also asked for his thoughts on “rising inequality ” in the U.S. Microsoft's co-founder responded that inequality is an issue that “all advanced democracies have to think about that." (See also: Tech Giants Inviting Govt Intervention: Bill Gates.) "You still have about a sixth of ...

Bill Gates: "Education Can Be Reformed Before Poverty Is ... : "Microsoft founder Bill Gates says success should not depend on the race or income of parents at National Urban League conference. العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Bill Gates tops Forbes list of 400 richest people in America  - Bill Gates is the richest person in America, according to Forbes. ... smallpox, reducing polio, and overhauling the American educational system.

Bill Gates gives backing for Robin Hood tax in order to tackle global poverty By Hugo Duncan Microsoft founder Bill Gates will today throw his weight behind a 'Robin Hood tax' on bankers in order to tackle global poverty . The billionaire philanthropist – still the world's second-richest man, even after giving away a third of his ...

Charitable Deeds by Bill Gates He stepped down from Microsoft's top executive post back in 2008 so that he could fully devote himself to running his charity organization , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His foundation invests heavily in projects that aim to eradicate extreme ...

Reliving D-Day, Bill Gates' influence on education and pondering weed legalization in California  - The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers ...

Bill Gates rallies for more global education assessments data - In the US , Gates and his wife focus on reshaping America's struggling ... rooted in their belief that a quality education can best uplift those in poverty , ...

Bill Gates Wants To Save 2 Million Children From Dying This Year. Here's How.  - In the past 25 years, the child death rate around the world fell by half. It's one of the great public health success stories in history. Bill and Melinda ...

Bill Gates backs capital gains tax; Here's why - Proposals have circulated recently for the richest Americans to again face a top ... measures to be taken to address rising income inequality in the U.S. .

The Bill Gates problem in school reform : "If we need the best and the brightest and if teachers alone can overcome the weight of poverty , then reducing teaching to a service industry contradicts internally an argument that is also easily disproved since both initial claims are false. ...

Bill Gates wants your help to design the condom of the future he blog points out that condom use is an incredibly effective way to prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases, but that effectiveness is hampered by "inconsistent use." The foundation estimates that only about 750 million men use condoms every ...

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos & Warren Buffett own more wealth than poorest half of US - The US's three richest people have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 160 million people. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, which released the report on Wednesday, has said that inequality in the US is reaching a “moral crisis”. “Wealth inequality is on the rise,” said Chuck Collins, ...

Africa: Solving Poverty and Hunger More Hopeful Than People Realize - Bill Gates : "Helping poor farming families is the answer – the best way to fight poverty and hunger and feed a growing population. Since its start less than three years ago, Purchase for Progress -- under the leadership of WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Bill Gates calls for more global education assessments data - And in May, the foundation also committed to delving deeper into systemic poverty in the U.S. by looking at both defined and abstract challenges such ...

Bill Gates terms India's polio eradication as 'most impressive global ...  - "Now that they have found India's children, they can bring them and their families other vaccines, clean water, education, advice on maternal and child health ,  ...

Warren Buffett's Son Disagrees With Bill Gates This is the American perspective ion American Poverty . Even through, I did not watch the Buffet 60 minutes segment, I love people who are excitable like Howard Buffet. I must admit I have given little thought to world poverty . ...

Bill Gates, the world's chequebook doctor  - Fifteen years ago, the biggest funders of the World Health Organization ... from Pakistan now based at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health .

Bill Gates: What I Learned in India  - Our foundation began working in India a decade ago, at a time when many feared that the country would become a flashpoint for HIV /AIDS. Since then, we have  ... World Press Review about social exclusion

Bill Gates on income inequality , plugging a tax loophole, and a history lesson on immigration  -  Inequality of wealth and income in America is wider than at any point since the Roaring Twenties. Despite that, it wasn't a topic ...

Gates hails UK on poverty action Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has praised the UK for its "fantastic" commitment to fighting extreme poverty across the world. The computer pioneer-turned-philanthropist said it gave his charitable foundation the opportunity to ask for other ...