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The New Gilded Age (2022)

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to make American kids among the best educated on Earth. They also intend to save millions of lives worldwide, says CNN's John Sutter. The foundation has an endowment of nearly $50 billion; that's bigger than many different countries' GDP. In some ways, they took the original Rockefeller style of philanthropy and brought it into the 21st century,.

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