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Bidens release tax return that shows they made almost $620,000 in 2023 (www.cnn.com)

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President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden earned $619,976 in 2023, according to their joint tax returnreleased by the White House on Monday – the deadline date for Americans to file their taxes.

The White House also released the return for Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, showing that pair made $450,299 last year.

“President Biden believes that all occupants of the Oval Office should be open and honest with the American people,” the White House said in a statement on Monday, “and that the longstanding tradition of annually releasing presidential tax returns should continue unbroken.”

That statement could be seen as a dig at former President Donald Trump, who declined to voluntarily release his tax returns while he was president. Six years of Trump’s tax returns, including from his time as president, were released to the public by the House Ways and Means Committee at the end of 2022.

The bulk of the Bidens’ income came from President Biden’s congressionally mandated $400,000 salary, along with pensions. The first lady also earned $85,985 from her position as a teacher at Northern Virginia Community College.

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[-] youngGoku@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

$85k for teacher seems reasonable in my opinion, especially considering how much time they get off during the year.

I thought it was much lower than that.

That said, I would love to see them make more than that. However, teaching is a fulfilling and rewarding job, and a lot of people do it for that reason. That makes it a competitive job market, and that's probably why salaries are low.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago

You think teachers just vacation when they’re not in class, how cute

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 21 points 7 months ago

First of all, she's a college professor not a "teacher".

Second, teachers at lower levels are leaving the profession. There's not enough teachers for the roles right now. It's not rewarding anymore.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

my wife is a senior lecturer at a university and makes 50k, so these aren't accurate numbers at all.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Sounds like she works at a stingy university, and is probably not also the President's wife.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

higher educational recruitment is a mess. She gets a daily email digest of jobs, there have been 2 in the last 5 years she could've applied to with better rates of pay, but both were very rural and away from friends and family by thousands of miles

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Just another person who simply does not understand how teaching works.

[-] necromancyr@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Just another teacher that simply doesn't understand how other jobs work.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

You could give me 11 months off work and I'd still want at least three times that much to be a teacher.

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