Join us : facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty.com Bill Gates is spending $1.7 billion to fix the US education system—here’s how Bill Gates has been an education-focused philanthropist since 2000and over the next five years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to invest $1.7 billion in U.S. public education. Earlier this month, the tech billionaire spoke at the Council of […]

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Join us : facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty.com Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half The Wealth Of White Single Parents. The racial wealth gap has been measured and studied for decades. One fact has remained the same: White families build and accumulate more wealth more quickly than black and brown families do. The reasons for this are multiple and […]

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Join us: facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty Norway bans cutting any trees that lead to deforestation. There is no doubt that we cannot get by in our lives without wood. This material is used in thousands of products that many people use every day. Unfortunately, a lot of these things, whether they are wood furniture or baked goods with palm oil, are responsible for large-scale tropical deforestation. The most affected […]

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Join us : facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty.com How Poverty Changes the Brain You saw the pictures in science class—a profile view of the human brain, sectioned by function. The piece at the very front, right behind where a forehead would be if the brain were actually in someone’s head, is the pre-frontal cortex. It handles problem-solving, goal-setting, and […]

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