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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140321

dollars. from the american enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i m arthur brooks, president of the american enterprise institute. and we re delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. so, this is bill gates. thank you. with his wife, melinda, he s the co-chair and co-founder of america s largest private foundation, the bill and melinda gates foundation. they work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the united states among other things. previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the world s largest software company, which he co-founded in 1973. most importantly, like me, he s a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. but that s not what we re here to talk about. we re here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that he s doing here and around the world. he shares so

Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140321

provinces. they give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i don t know. it s going to be the difficulty of getting out there. ch and that s a serious problem. that s why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether it s on oversight or green issues, health issues. because they re the ones with the eyes and ears. they re out there. they re community based. that s what we re going to have to rely on. and we re toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. to be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. that s more difficult. tths not the gold standard. we have to, who is watching the watchdogs? who is going to watch the people, you know. so that s a whole process that we have to do. we have to deal with the ngos. we can t forget them. we cannot forget an independent press. let me just be clear here. the reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capo

Transcripts For CSPAN Bill Gates On Global Poverty And Development 20140324

so let me ask you about that intransigent set of problems that we have in u.s. education. and i understand that there are certain problems that you can you can eradicate the guinea worm. you can t necessarily eradicate ignorance. here at aei we re trying to improve the free enterprise system. that doesn t mean we ll be done at some point. i mean, that s just the nature of social enterprise as i understand. here in washington, d.c., we talk about public education all the time. this is the capital of the free world. we should have the best education system, and it should be an exemplar to the whole world. i think we should we should agree. we re pumping more than $18,000 per kid per year in the system, and 15%of eighth graders read at a nationally acceptable standard. so what do we do? well, it is phenomenal the variance in how much is spent per student. you know, utah s below $6,000 per student per year. a lot of states are in the $7,500 per student per year range.

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