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Elizabeth Warren: “Those families had had one of three things happen to them…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Talk Easy Interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Constitutional Crisis and Public Education

Published | Video Starts at 37:34

Does sound like a Republican mother. Oh, it did. It did. It sounded very Republican. And I sat in those courtrooms, I read those files, and I realized this family's just like mine. Those families had had one of three things happen to them, and most had had two out of three. They had had terrible medical problems, they had a significant long job loss, or they had a death or divorce in the family. And that explained more than 90% of the bankruptcies. And like I said, many had had to. How long people had struggled to try to stay out of bankruptcy court, how they had borrowed from Peter to pay Paul, … (37:34–37:55)

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