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“No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties,” she said at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards.
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The Institute for Policy Studies’ report “The Giving Pledge at 15” finds that the initiative remains mostly unfulfilled.
The 400 richest people in America are worth a combined $6.6 trillion, according to Forbes.
