America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
From Elizabeth Warren
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.
Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.
What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
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