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Jill Biden, the first first lady to keep a paid job outside the White House

What we already know is that the first lady Jill Tracy Jacobs, married Biden, 69, will go down in history as the country’s first first lady to continue to do paid work outside the White House. She has been teaching English literature for 36 years and has continued to do so during the eight years that her husband, President Joe Biden, was vice president in the Obama administration. And now he said it over and over again: he wants to continue teaching at Northern Virginia Community College.

The husband also kept us repeating during his speech at the convention: “You are not a teacher, you are a teacher”, as if it were a mission, too constitutive a part of his identity to abandon

Kate Andersen Brower, author of several bestselling books on first ladies and the White House, described Jill Biden’s decision as “unprecedented in American history” and has already renamed it “Professor FLOTUS” and continued: “In addition to her doctorate, Jill he also earned two master’s degrees, both obtained while working and raising a family. ” In addition to this, the new first lady has been following various humanitarian causes for years: the commitment to the families of the military, to research against cancer and to access to free and free education (not for nothing does she teach in a state university and not in a prestigious Ivy League college).

A nice change of pace – say the experts – compared to the purely representative role, with the suit and gloves, in which one usually imagines a first lady. A breath of modernity.

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