The MOMocrats were invited to participated in a special conference call for a group of women bloggers, with Dr. Jill Biden, wife of VP Candidate, Joe Biden on Friday, October 17. Dr. Biden is professor of English at Delaware Technical & Community College, and holds two masters degrees and a PhD in Education. She is also well-known as a philanthropist for her work as the founder of the Biden Breast Health Inititative.
Dana Singiser: Welcome and thank you for being on the call. It's my honor and pleasure to introduce Dr. Jill Biden. Dr. Biden has spent 30 years as an educator, 15 years at Delaware Tech & Community College, while raising a family.
Also on the call is Danielle Gray, Deputy Policy Advisor for the Campaign, who can help answer some questions.
Jill Biden: Thank you for being here. I know that many of you are mothers and are working and have a lot to manage in a day. I know, because I'm the mom of 3 kids, grandmother of 5. Women are facing more and more hurdles in balancing work and family. Women primary caretakers, taking care of their families, and often their own parents, like I have been doing for the past several months. Yet, women do not get equal pay in the workforce, earning only seventy-seven cents to every dollar earned by a man. Today, women are bearing an even greater burden than ever before.
I've been a teacher for 27 years. Teaching is my passion. I still teach four days a week. Even though this campaign is important, my students are also important...Some are raising kids and going to school. Every day in class room, I see how my students struggle. People don't realize that the economic problems and the credit crisis affects student loans, too, so many of them worry about how they can stay in school. My students cannot afford 4 more years of George Bush. None of us can.
Barack & Joe know what matters to Americans. What matters to Americans are decent jobs, the ability to pay the mortgage, access to affordable healthcare, and ending the war in Iraq. Neither of them ever forgot where they came from, and will work for America's families.
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