Both are highly involved in philanthropies aimed at helping the world's poorest communities. Gates, though the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, is a well-known advocate for the poor in Africa.
He has helped Africans fight disease, starvation and poor sanitation. Both have had incredibly successful business ventures. She released a surprise album on iTunes in She once created an alter ego Sasha Fierce. Her latest song, which was also a surprise, was released exclusively on Tidal, the high-fidelity streaming service that she co-owns with Jay Z. Knowles also has several endorsements, most notably Pepsi, which also sponsors the Super Bowl halftime show.
Related: A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated. HBCUs can offer a natural alternative. They are already providing socially supportive campuses but there is room for them to nurture the next tech discovery, which could pay back debt-ridden families. Business majors can reduce the time and cost it takes to earn a degree if colleges adopt an accelerator model, offering shorter-term modules that are rooted in practice.
What happens after? Debt-laden graduates have to repay their student loans in addition to getting funding for their start-ups, beggaring them twice over. One researcher of higher education found that approximately half 49 percent of all black students entering college in defaulted on at least one loan within 12 years — more than twice the rate of white students 20 percent and more than four times the rate of Asian students 11 percent.
Private, for-profit institutions produced the highest default rates, but public and private nonprofit colleges approximately 38 and 43 percent respectively were dangerously high as well. If going to college is going to put you in debt, then students should be given greater ability to turn that debt into profits. Change is sorely needed. Academic success and entrepreneurial achievement are not mutually exclusive — even for black students.
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By submitting your name, you grant us permission to publish it with your letter. In recent weeks, the US has been experiencing record high cases, deaths and hospitalisations. If we would follow the rules, in terms of wearing masks and not mixing, we could avoid a large percentage of those deaths, Bill Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN.
So, this virus could be more fatal than it is. We didn't get the worst-case. But the thing that has surprised me is that the economic impact in the US and around the world has been much greater than the forecasts that I made five years ago," he said. Bill Gates said that his foundation had been funding a lot of the research for the vaccines.
And so our expertise in infectious disease, which normally only relates to developing countries, applied to the entire world for this crisis," he added. The US need to help all of humanity, Bill Gates said when asked of the executive order signed by President Donald Trump, which prioritises distribution of the vaccine to Americans before it goes to people in other countries.
We want to minimise the deaths. And, you know, the basic technology is a German company.
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