Out to more people has to be doubled, has to be made more real. And that brings us to the issue of education where we know there is a huge deficit in the region. The regions Higher Education institutions remain not up to the challenge of the 21st century, and many leaders recognize this. So we will continue to push where we can with 100,000 strong in the americas program, which was now awarded 38 innovation grants to 100 Higher Education institutions in 12 countries. I am proud we are continuing to work on this and really moving ahead with a lot of private sector partnerships in a lot of countries, but we need to do even more at partnering. We know that wholesale connection, what we are doing is connecting institutions to institution. We are not funding individual scholarships. We know that connecting universities and colleges to universities and colleges will raise the number of students who go on these exchanges faster than funding individual scholarships. We have seen the numbers of
Here is the gallup hold that breaks down americans level of worrying about environmental problems. The top of the list is the pollution of Drinking Water. Americans were worried about this a great deal in 2014, versus those in 2015. 47 of americans were worried about pollution of lakes, rivers, and reservoirs in 2014,5, lower than in 2014. And only 32 say they are worried about Global Warming or Climate Change. Even as Global Warming has received greater attention from politicians and the media americans worry about it is no higher now than when gallup first asked about it in 1989. Part of the excavation for this may be because the results are quite different when you break down the survey responses by political party. The gallup poll shows that democrats are much more worried about Environmental Issues and republicans are. 13 of republicans in 2014 2015 said they were worried about Climate Change, which is significantly lower than 2014. For democrats, more than half of them said they
No class. A whistleblower says unc put top athletes in classes that never even met. His college ball killing the academy . Youll hear from an outraged faculty member. You are watching Market Makers. Its friday, everybody. Im Erik Schatzker. And im stephanie ruhle. Moving to new york city. Because he wants to be close to the bars. Wrote that and then closet crossed it out in his blog. Welcome to new york. Right now it is time for the top stories from around the world. We will begin with a fraud affecting citigroups mexican subsidiary that forced the bank to restate last years earnings. Profit was 235 million less than first reported in january. The bank said the fraud involved an Oil Services Company that was a key supplier to the mexican state owned oil producer. Citibank had provided them with shortterm loans related to accounts receivable of amex. Ukraine says Russian Troops are directly involved in the conflict in crimea. Troops have occupied the regions main airport. Another one is
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