1 / 11Election 2020 Elizabeth Warren Origin StoryThis undated photo provided by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign in July 2019 shows Warren and her husband, Bruce Mann, working as young law professors. CHICAGO — As a young scholar, Elizabeth Warren traveled to federal courthouses, studying families overwhelmed by debt.
"The American middle class was in a lot more trouble than anyone had previously thought," she told The Associated Press, describing her research,"and year by year, the stories have gotten worse. ... The game has become a little more tilted and a little more tilted against hardworking families." She married at 19, became a mother at 22, divorced and remarried. After a brief stint as a speech therapist, she changed careers, attended Rutgers Law School and eventually landed a job at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
It wasn't just the topic but how Warren and her colleagues pursued their research that set them apart. "I knew that my family had been through a lot of tough times, but nobody had actually declared bankruptcy," she recalled in the interview. Westbrook says he and Warren didn't talk much about politics during their research, but he assumed she was a moderate Republican who turned more progressive, rejecting a creditor-friendly view that debtors were largely responsible for their predicament. The more they learned, he says, the more they identified with those coming to court.
Two years later, the panel proposed a series of recommendations to Congress, including strengthening the ability to collect child support from those who've filed for bankruptcy and standardizing how much property could be kept by a bankrupt family and under what conditions. But a group of researchers that analyzed that data concluded medical bills contributed to just 17% of personal bankruptcies and said those affected tended to be closer to poverty rather than the middle class.
Garthwaite says the findings exaggerate the degree to which medical bills are responsible for bankruptcy."Are you getting at the causal role of medical debt in bankruptcy or simply the presence of medical debt of those who go bankrupt? These are hard questions to answer. ... Just because a number is big doesn't make it right."
Kinda like every other human being, right. Special,right?
That headline would be extremely uncomfortable if it was about any of the male candidates.
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