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    Bill Gates Predicts 'What's At Stake' With Proposed Trump Foreign Aid Cuts

    The Gates Foundation has released projections showing the impact on new cases of HIV and issues like child mortality if there's a global drop in foreign aid.
    by Michaeleen Doucleff Sep 13, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Brittany Mayes and Matthew Zhang/NPR

    There's at least one thing Bill Gates and President Trump agree on: The media don't always get things right.

    For Gates, the problem is with the foreign aid coverage.

    "The nature of news is mostly to cover big setbacks," Gates says. "So if a little bit of money was spent improperly, that's what gets the news coverage, even though 99 percent of it was spent well."

    This focus on failure leads to false impressions about

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