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Authors: Elizabeth Warren

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TARP andnnnnnn
TARP warrants and

Tribe, Laurence H.

Troske, Ken

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP, bank bailouts).
See also
banks and banking; Congressional Oversight Panel; Treasury Department;
and specific individuals; financial institutions; and government agencies

AIG and
alternatives to
Bear Stearns and
bank stocks or warrants andn
Barofsky and
Citi-weekend and
COP and
costs of regulation vs.
creation and goals of
Daily Show
and
foreclosures and
Geithner and
negotiated reorganization and
nostrings-attached approach of
Reid asks Warren to serve on oversight of
small business and
stress tests and
Too Big to Fail and
Warren’s Senate campaign of 2012 and

True the Vote

True Vine Church (Dorchester)

Trumka, Rich

Tsongas, Niki

Twitter

Twohig, Peggy

Two-Income Trap, The
(Warren and Tyagi)

Tyagi, Amelia Louise Warren

All Your Worth
and
birth and childhood of
birth of Atticus and
birth of Lavinia and
birth of Octavia and
death of father and
Demos and
education and
marriage and family life of
marries Sushil Tyagi
Two-Income Trap
and
Warren’s Senate campaign of 2012 and

Tyagi, Atticus Mann

Tyagi, Lavinia

Tyagi, Octavia

Tyagi, Sushil

unemployment

United Association of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and HVAC Service Techs

United Auto Workers (UAW)

United Automobile, Aerospace and Agriculture Implement Workers of America

United Brotherhood of Carpenters

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

United Mine Workers of America; the United Steelworkers

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Air Forces

U.S. Bancorp

US Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Congress

bank bailout and
bank regulation and
bankruptcy bill and
car dealers and
CFPB and
COP and
financial crisis and short-selling by
financial industry access and
financial reform bill and
government spending and
interest rates and
lobbyists and
National Bankruptcy Review Commission and
repeal of Glass-Steagall and
TARP and
TARP warrants and

U.S. Constitution

U.S. House of Representatives

bankruptcy act and
CFPB and
elections of 2010 and
financial reform bill and
Financial Services Committee
foreclosure scandal and
TARP and

U.S. Marines

U.S. Senate

Banking Committee
bankruptcy act and
CFPB and
Cordray nomination and
elections of 2010
elections of 2012
filibusters in
financial reform and

U.S. Senate campaign of 2012

debates and
Democratic National Convention and
fundraising and
gaffes and
GOP tracker and
investing in Americans’ future and
Massachusetts state nomination convention and
Native American issue and
People’s Pledge and
staff and
volunteers and
Warren’s family and
women’s issues and

U.S. Supreme Court

Warren’s appearance before

UNITE-HERE

United Transportation Union

United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers

University of Connecticut

University of Houston

University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin)

University of Virginia

USAction

usury laws

Utility Workers Union of America

Vale, Elizabeth

Veneck, Bessie.
See
Reed, Bessie Amelia

Veneck, Stanley

Vietnam War

Violence Against Women Act (2013)

Virginia elections of 2012

Volcker, Paul

voter registration

Wahlberg, Mark

Walden, Johan

Wall Street Journal

Wall Street.
See also
banks and banking; big banks;
and specific institutions

Brown and
deregulation and
lack of accountability
Obama and
“sheriffs” of
Warren’s Senate campaign and

Walsh, Johnn

Warren, Alex

birth and childhood of
college and
death of father and
marriage of
Warren’s teaching and

Warren, Amelia Louise.
See
Tyagi, Amelia Louise Warren

Warren, Elise Hutcherson

Warren, James

marriage and family life and
death of
divorce from

Washington Post

Waters, Maxine

Weaver, Caleb

Wells Fargo

Wellstone, Paul

Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

West End Gym (Lowell)

Whitehouse, Sheldon

Wilkerson, Tewana

Williamson, Brady C.

Willumstad, Robert

women

as bank executives
as candidates for office
equal pay for
incomes of, vs. men
law firms and
lending discrimination and
married mothers working
reproductive rights and
as “sheriffs” of Wall Street
Warren’s Senate campaign and

women’s movement

Wood, Carrie

World War II

YouTube

Zimmer, Hans

Zopatti, Gretchen

Zopatti, Steve

 

Acknowledgments

For a long time, writing books has been one way for me to fight for the people I believe in, and my daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, has been an extraordinary ally. After coauthoring
The Two-Income Trap
and
All Your Worth
, she was ready once again to jump into another book with me, this time helping me with the research and keeping the entire project on track. She pushed me to tell more personal stories, to let the reader know what these fights felt like. Amelia was also the one who repeatedly said, “Tell more about this story,” or “This is confusing,” or the much-dreaded “This is boring.” She helped make this a better book, and I am deeply grateful.

Dan Geldon has been my partner as we fought our way side by side through five battles now, and much of what we’ve accomplished should be credited to him. From his student days, Dan has been a crucial co-conspirator—the strategist who made sure that we kept our goals firmly in mind and managed toward them every day. Where I am blunt, Dan is subtle, and he sees much that I would miss. Another former student, Ganesh Sitaraman is the great thinker of the team, the one who sees context and direction. He has a ravenous appetite for ideas, and he shares them with generous delight. Like Dan, Ganesh was a close-up partner for most of these battles. Without Dan and Ganesh, the adventures would have been fewer and the successes fewer still.

In this book, I tell what happened, what I saw, and what I fought for, but I was never alone. Thanks should be widely shared. In the Bankruptcy Wars, no one deserves more credit than my longtime coauthors Professor Jay Lawrence Westbrook and Dr. Teresa Sullivan. We set out on our first empirical study together, venturing into uncharted territory; no one could ask for better partners in such an undertaking. Other co-researchers and coauthors joined us along the way in various groupings and regroupings in research projects that spanned more than twenty-five years—some of which are still ongoing. Professor Melissa Jacoby joined our efforts, and then Professor Katherine Porter, Dr. Deborah Thorne, and Professor John Pottow. Together they helped build some of our biggest, most comprehensive studies. Professor Bruce Markell worked on the design of a new study, until he left to become a judge. Professor Robert Lawless and Professor Angela Littwin added new depth and new directions to the studies. Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein brought their health care experience to help us expand the reach of our work. Dean Michael Schill and Dr. Susan Wachter helped us explore housing issues. We went into the field multiple times through the years, with study after study, to provide hard facts about the economic realities facing America’s middle class.

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