11:31am

Fri November 30, 2012
Humanosphere

Gates Foundation blog accuses tax cheats of fueling poverty

Melinda Gates et al. at the Gates Foundation appear to be taking a harder line when backing the poor.

Melinda Gates is running full tilt against the Catholic Church on family planning and now the philanthropy’s blog is pumping out this thinly disguised attack on, well, rich people. Something seems to be changing over there. The Gates Foundation is getting political. As the authors — Joe Brewer, Martin Kirk and Adriana Valdez Young — say:

“The depiction of poverty as a background reality with no human cause conceals the active role of decision makers to create and perpetuate it.”

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