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How state budgets are breaking US schools - Bill Gates

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America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the losing end.

According to Bill Gates, what will happen if we don't solve the mis-accounting of certain long-term obligations like health care?

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