{"id":433,"date":"2011-05-01T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-05-01T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T12:50:32","slug":"obamas-report-2-1m-income-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/obamas-report-2-1m-income-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamas report $2.1m income for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110419\/ST_19833196.jpg\" alt=\"Obama\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US PRESIDENT Barack Obama and his wife earned US$1.7 million (S$2.1 million) last year, a significant drop from the prior year as sales of the president&#8217;s books slowed, according to tax documents released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The president and first lady Michelle Obama reported 2010 adjusted gross income of US$1,728,096, down from US$5.5 million in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>While the salary for US president is US$395,000 annually, &#8216;the vast majority of the family&#8217;s income is the proceeds from the sale of the president&#8217;s books&#8217;, White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama earned US$1.38 million in 2010 from sales of his books, The Audacity Of Hope, Dreams From My Father, and Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters. That&#8217;s down from nearly US$5.2 million in books&#8217; revenue from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Of Thee I Sing is a children&#8217;s book released last year, and Mr Obama has pledged to donate after-tax proceeds to the Fisher House scholarship fund for children of fallen and disabled US military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Obamas reported US$2.6 million in adjusted gross income for 2008. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US PRESIDENT Barack Obama and his wife earned US$1.7 million (S$2.1 million) last year, a significant drop from the prior year as sales of the president&#8217;s books slowed, according to tax documents released on Monday. The president and first lady Michelle Obama reported 2010 adjusted gross income of US$1,728,096, down from US$5.5 million in 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}