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This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.
— Barack Obama
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Obama calls caring for our children our first task and first job. If we fail at that, he says, we fail at everything. It's the ultimate measure by which a society is judged, in his words.
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