Michelle Obama gets resume from girl with unemployed dad
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At a question-and-answer session with children of executive office employees, First Lady Michelle Obama received a resume from 10-year-old Charlotte Bell, whose dad has been out of a job for three years. Scott Pelley reports.
The first lady seemed a little taken aback but then explained to the other children, who might not have heard the girl's comment, that the matter was "a little private, but she's doing something for her dad." Mrs. Obama promised to deal with the matter later. First lady Michelle Obama hugs Charlotte Bell, 10, after she gave Obama a copy of her father's resume at the White House's annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day in the East Room of the White House, April 24, 2014.
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When the event ended, Mrs. Obama gave the girl, Charlotte Bell, a hug and then reached back to grab the resume off a table as she left the East Room. The first lady played host to the children at the White House on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
Charlotte's family had joked over the weekend about making a job pitch to the first lady, but her parents didn't know she would give it a try, according to her mother, an executive branch employee who did not want to be identified.
Charlotte's father, Ben Bell, has been looking for a policy job for more than two years and recently has been trying to get a job with the Obama administration. He worked on the Obama campaign in 2012.
