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Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute
Jeffrey Sachs is is an American economist and co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. He is also the former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank that Columbia bestows on its faculty.
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How should we think about the tension between opening the economy back up and preserving public health?
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America treats the world like a board game. That's a problem.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses how the megarich can help millions of children by donating 1 percent of their wealth.
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In the summer of 1969, America did the extraordinary. Let’s do it again.
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Jeffrey Sachs, from the Rust Belt himself, shares his thoughts on Trump's economic plans and shares some red flags to watch for as new policy proposals surface.
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Can't the U.S. be a little more like Scandinavia in its ethos? Fixing inequality in America will take more than economic reform, it will also need a cultural shift.
NEW YORK – The horrific Ebola epidemic in at least four West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria) demands not only an emergency response to halt the outbreak; […]