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Carlos Slim: 5 Facts on the Billionaire Atop the Forbes 400 List
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsRecession woes? Diminished savings? Behind on bills? These aren't words that resonate for Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who just topped a 2011 Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. As WalletPop reports, Slim is now worth a whopping $74 billion, placing him well ahead of No. 2 Bill Gates ($56 billion) and No. 3 Warren Buffett ($50 billion). This is the second year in a row that Slim has been No. 1 on the Forbes list, although last year he was worth just $53.5 billion. To put his current net worth of $74 billion in perspective: Slim could cover New York state's budget deficit ...
Obama to GOP: Don't Cut Education Spending
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON -- Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money for education as irresponsible and harmful to the long-term health of the nation's economy. In his most vigorous defense yet of his education spending proposals, Obama conceded that after years of deficits, the government needed to embrace fiscal discipline. And in a restrained speech to Democratic donors, he cautioned the partisan crowd not to equate compromise with failure. "Not everything ...
Gates Pledges $34.8 Million for Community Colleges at White House Summit
By Julia Edwards - Politics DailyPhilanthropist Melinda Gates announced a $34.8-million award to high-performing community colleges Tuesday at the White House's first summit on community colleges, an effort by the Obama administration to promote the schools as a path to jobs for middle-class Americans. "In this country hard work is supposed to pay off," Melinda Gates said. "And I'm excited to see so many people come here today to guarantee that it pays off for young adults who attend community colleges." President Barack Obama praised community colleges for opening doors to workers in need of low-cost degrees and announced ...
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton to Speak at Clinton Global Initiative
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFor those who hoped, in vain, to see a Clinton-Obama reunion this summer at Chelsea Clinton's nuptials, all is not lost: On Thursday, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced that First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the closing remarks at the organization's meeting this year on Sept. 23. Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI is a veritable who's who of kingmakers, power brokers and political pooh-bahs who convene yearly in New York City to tackle the world's most pressing issues. According to the CGI website, attendees "create a 'Commitment to Action' -- a detailed ...
Opinion: City Schools Reform Must Include Parental Choice
By not in system - AOL News(June 29) -- New York City's schools are quiet for the next several weeks as more than 1 million students take summer break. But while children are at home, parents wonder if and when K-12 education will ever turn around in the nation's largest school district. At least with New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein, parents and children have a chance. Another View No school is improved and no student is helped by closing schools, says Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of Education. Find out why she thinks this is. This past school year, Klein made the bold move of announcing he ...
Abortion Rights = Feminism?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyAbortion is for sure the mama of all tough issues – because it's a big damn deal wherever you stand, and because it's such a difficult subject on which to disagree with those you love. (If you think of this "procedure" as the taking of a human life, can you really claim in the next breath that you have no judgments about it? Honestly, no. Just as if you see abortion rights as the cornerstone of female independence, you cannot be all la-di-da neutral about threats to that freedom.) My fellow contrarian and Politics Daily colleague Donna Trussell zipped to the heart of the matter when ...
Melinda Gates Can't Run From the Abortion Controversy
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyYou might think that donating $1.5 billion to global maternal and infant health would beget global cheering. Perhaps a small island named after you. Children given your name. Songs sung in your honor. But nothing is so easy and apolitical. Nothing, especially, in the world of women's health. Last week, Melinda Gates promised that the Gates Foundation -- known for its work on vaccines, HIV/AIDs and malaria -- would be striding off into the future with a separate but related arm of work focusing on reducing maternal and infant mortality -- two of the Millennium Development Goals. Pledging ...
Melinda Gates on 350,000 Childbirth Deaths: 'We Can Prevent Most'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAshley Judd. Former President Michelle Bachelet of Chile. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand. Former Irish President and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Journalist Christiane Amanpour. Model Christy Turlington. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Singer Annie Lennox. Philanthropist Melinda Gates. All in Washington to discuss one thing: No woman should die giving life. And yet they are dying, in droves. Some 350,000 women lose their lives each year giving birth or through complications of childbearing. It's a number that the 3,500 attendees, from ...
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