You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“What happened is an economic boa constrictor that is squeezing working families so hard they can’t breathe. Gina” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“These families need you.” I said it quietly, and the silence stretched some more. I tried to steady my breathing. He paused… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
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