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Elizabeth Warren is a planner and fighter with a track record of success.
Warren Profile
Elizabeth Warren helped conduct the single largest study ever done on why American families go broke. Knowing why approximately one in seven families will face financial hardship allows us to debunk fallacious theories like the anecdotal overconsumption myth and allows us to keep families safer against predatory lenders and the very real and outside-of-their-control threat of bankruptcy due to unexpected job loss, unexpected illness and medical bills, and unexpected change in the family unit. As a result of her work, Warren has fought hard against bad bankruptcy bills that make it harder for everyday Americans to file for bankruptcy.
Warren has always tried to get to the crux of a topic and did so again when in 2014 she explained her stance on the role of government in business. On the question often framed as ‘pro-business vs anti-business’ politics, Warren said that this is all just a distraction from the real question: “Does everyone pay, or just the little guys?” (pg 247, from “A Fighting Chance”). Warren says she is pro-union, pro-small business, and pro-big business as long as unions, small businesses, and big businesses are fair and just to workers.
Warren has long been championing the women’s movement, equity and racial justice, and education. She proposed the Bank on Students Act in her first senate term to improve student loan lending rates. Although it didn’t pass, the bill led to a compromise that ended up saving students $15 billion. Warren has experienced many wins and losses throughout her advocacy career, which has paved the road to persistence and keeping up righteous fights. More recently, Warren released a plan for tuition-free higher education and student loan forgiveness.
“You don’t get what you don’t fight for,” Warren often says; let’s fight for her to be our most progressive vice president and the first woman in America to be vice president.
Fun facts
· Her dad wanted to be a commercial airline pilot, was a flight instructor during WW2; after the war, he worked a couple of temp jobs and later became a janitor
· Her mom’s side was Native American; dad’s side opposed the marriage
· She grew up Methodist in Oklahoma to a conservative family; she skipped a grade
· Her three brothers joined the military
· Her dream school was Northwestern (but she got a full-ride debate scholarship to George Washington University)
· She dropped out at 19 and got married; her mom had always wanted her to not pursue her studies and instead focus on making a family
· She enrolled in community college and became a speech therapist for kids with special needs
· She enrolled in law school
· She is a notoriously horrible cook
· She dressed up as Robin Hood one Halloween
· She proposed to Bruce Mann but kept her first husband’s last name for her two kids
· Bruce Mann, Warren’s husband, is a professor of property law
· She was a Methodist Sunday School teacher
· She was a Harvard law professor; Joe Kennedy and Katie Porter were her students
· She is the author of economics books, book chapters, and commercial financial advice books; her book, "The Two-Income Trap" is touted as a classic
· Warren is a grandma to three