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Subject: Why It’s Time to Move Beyond Andrew Carnegie’s Ideas (Opinion)
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As Bill Gates prepares to plow $200 billion into his philanthropy before it sunsets in 20 years, he is counting on innovation and, eventually, a global change of heart to resume the progress made on public health since 2000. Partnerships of governments, philanthropy, and others have helped slash extreme poverty and childhood deaths, but cuts in foreign aid by the world’s wealthiest countries could erase some of that progress, he warned. Gates predicted future U.S. administrations would restore at least some of the funding, but he said debt forgiveness for sub-Saharan countries is key to their self-sufficiency. In the meantime, he blasted Elon Musk for the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying, “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” (New York Times)
The country’s rural and tribal public radio stations are imperiled by the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate funding for public broadcasting. A lifeline during emergencies, especially when internet service is unavailable, the stations get as much as half of their annual budgets from the federal government. That makes them more vulnerable than the stated targets of the administration’s wrath, NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service. To prepare for possible cuts, the stations have been pooling resources for several years, but if the federal funds disappeared, “I don’t know how we’d survive,” said the general manager of a public radio station in Alaska. (Columbia Journalism Review)
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