“We are not seeing the mobility out of poverty in the same way in the United States as it used to exist,” Melinda Gates said. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is studying these topics with no plans yet for any particular initiatives, though it has done related work at home in Washington state on a much smaller scale. Once the world’s richest man, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has marked a decade since transitioning away from the tech giant to focus on philanthropy. “I got, both times, to talk about the miracle of vaccines and how those are good things,” Bill Gates said. “You just have to go look in Twitter to see the disparaging comments over and over and over again about women and minorities,” Melinda Gates said.

Source: Egypt Independent February 13, 2018 09:56 UTC