In 1986, Barack Obama, then a community organizer in Chicago, attended training offered by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) with funds provided by the Archdiocese of Chicago, according to putative archdiocesan archival documents given to Phyllis Schlafly and George Neumayr and printed in their new book, No Higher Power.
The Campaign for Human Development, now known as the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, is the US bishops’ controversial anti-poverty program; the IAF is a community-organizing network founded by Saul Alinsky.
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