Like many single teen mothers with a GED, Bristol Palin had many lucrative job offers to sort through. She chose a job teaching about abstinence, since it’s a subject she knows a lot about. Obviously her lectures are very effective because she made a huge salary:
In 2009, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500.
Bristol’s message of don’t do what I did my baby is the greatest thing ever resonates with the public. It’s so effective that the Candies Foundation doesn’t need to do anything else to actually prevent teen pregnancy.
But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics: $25,000 to the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center and $10,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
That’s right – Bristol Palin is 7x more effective than health and counseling for teenagers.