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"Dick DeVos started working for his father’s company—the Amway Corporation—in 1974 and ten years later became vice president with responsibility for the company's operations in 19 countries. He founded the Winquest Group, a private investment company, in 1989. DeVos was elected to the Michigan State Board of Education in 1991 but only served two years of an eight-year term before stepping down to run the family business. He was president of Alticor Inc., the parent company of the Amway Corporation, for ten years before he retired in 2002. Since then, he has been devoted to privatizing public education and other right-wing causes."
"Their foundation, the [[Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation]], where Dick serves as vice-president, is one of the handful of foundations that together have financed much of the effort to promote the [[Religious Right]]'s agenda across the country."
<ref>"[http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21895 Voucher Warriors]", ''People for the American Way'', accessed April 2008.</ref>
