watch it: “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”
It’s not fancy or snazzy, just a great example of straight-up info that Web video makes wonderfully accessible: Harvard Law scholar Elizabeth Warren strips the bullshit away from the truth around the financial pressures on ordinary Americans in the early 21st century, and how much they’ve changed in only a generation. It’s long but worth it:
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posted by Maura (Tue May 06 08, 11:37PM)
I used to work for the faculty of HLS. Professor Warren is fantastic, and she's doing some of the most important economic research IMHO that's happening today. This lecture covers a lot of the material in her terrifying book "The Two-Income Trap," which I think should be required reading for... oh, everybody.