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And in what sense did the Obamas “leave” corporate America?

Mrs. Obama works for the University of Chicago Hospitals. She’s not a nurse or doctor. She’s a lawyer who was taken on by the hospitals in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority contracting.” In 2005, she got a $200,000 pay raise and was appointed Vice President for Community and External Affairs and put in charge of managing “the Hospitals’ business diversity program.”

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And in what sense did the Obamas “leave” corporate America?

Mrs. Obama works for the University of Chicago Hospitals. She’s not a nurse or doctor. She’s a lawyer who was taken on by the hospitals in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority contracting.” In 2005, she got a $200,000 pay raise and was appointed Vice President for Community and External Affairs and put in charge of managing “the Hospitals’ business diversity program.”