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The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
University of California Television (UCTV) · 10 recommenders · 10 months
Elizabeth Warren's 2007 Berkeley lecture, when she was a Harvard law professor, on why middle-class families are under growing financial strain. She draws on bankruptcy research to examine rising costs of housing, health care and education.
Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN cites it often in debates on inequality, cost disease and stagnant middle-class income, praising its data-driven approach.
Labor, work & inequalityUniversity lectures & coursesUS politics & elections#elizabeth warren#bankruptcy#two-income trap#housing costs#inequality
“it's gripping stuff, because she develops insights based on research and hard-nosed science.”
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