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West africa, the organization builds teaching hospitals, tends to the sick and reforms entire health care systems. Today partners in health makes 800. Thousand home visits per year. It provides checkups to a million women around the world. The goal, making sure whether we live or die is not turn on how much we have. On todays bloomberg Big Decisions , dr. Paul farmer. Welcome to blue berke bates decisions welcome to bloomberg Big Decisions. You have a career dedicated to charity and medical science paired which came first . Dr. Farmer probably charity. When i was a kid i thought i wanted to be a doctor. We did not have doctors in the family and i had never been to a doctor but i had this idea, probably from television. The charity part was something i learned from my parents who had limited means at a large family, but were involved in charity. My father, particular, was interested in what, in that day, was called retarded people are retarded citizens. And he drags all of his kids into
Senate trial. Unfiltered coverage on cspan, on demand at cspan. Org impeachment. Richard wang joins us from seattle for discussion on the future of work in this country. Mr. Wang, your day job in a of codingof dojo. Richard we essentially provide someoned tech training, with no data science or developer background, i train them three months and get them ready. After coming out of our program, they will be ready to become a Software Developer working with a tech company in the tech sector. In addition, you write for forbes, one of your recent columns you talked about the idea of a skills gap in this country and how Apprentice Programs might be a way to bridge the gap. Explain with the skill gap is that you see. Richard we are in the fourth industrial revolution. For this revolution we are looking at virtual reality, robotics and different technologies happening. Everything underneath this layer is powering our economy. Right now, students coming out of Fouryear College or not getting tr