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Give It Away Now
What Bill Gates’s and Warren Buffet’s challenge to other American billionaires—give away half of all your money!—could mean in the fight against global poverty.
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80
Percent of people in developing countries who live on less than $10 a day
24,000
Children under age five who die
each day due to poverty
99
Percent of his wealth Buffet
has pledged to donate
2
Percent of income Americans give to charity annually
$1.2 Trillion
Estimated net worth of American billionaires on the Forbes 400 list
80
Percent of Americans who
did not bequeath money to charity upon death in 2008
$600 Billion
Amount global charities
would gain if all those
billionaires donated 50
percent of their wealth
