Link: Mike Bloomberg Donates $1 Billion to Fund Free Medical Tuition — The Information

A $1 billion donation from Mike Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and co-founder of media and data service Bloomberg LP, will fund free tuition for most students at Johns Hopkins University’s medical school. The gift will pay full tuition for students whose families earn less than $300,000 a year and cover living expenses for students from families earning less than $175,000. Bloomberg was motivated to make the donation after noticing “the challenges that the professions confronted during the course of the pandemic and the heroic efforts they’ve made to protecting and providing care to American citizens during the pandemic,” Johns Hopkins president Ron Daniels told The Associated Press. #

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