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This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.

Elizabeth Warren

Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Health Insurance Protection Ruin Safety
Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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Anger Popular Rage
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.
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Economics Hard Work People Play Poor Rule
I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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Big Failure Myself
I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
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Complex Easy Myself Tax
It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.
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Department Education Government Profit Struggle Student
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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Graduation Marriage Myself Table Teaching Wait
My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.
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Fear Goal Learning Myself Poor Response Scare Work
I don’t want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
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Change Difference Equality Issues Live Myself Pay Way Woman
We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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Effort Fight Inspirational One Liner Win
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
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Born Identity Myself Story
Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.
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Build Debt Goal Move Pay Save Start Time Work
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.
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Need People Reform Urgent Young
Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.
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Comparison Complication Money Planning Trip
If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
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Seat Table Trouble Yourself
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.
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Believe Death Dignity Fight Justice Man Police Poverty Reserve Young

This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.

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This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.

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