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The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
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 HN readers recommended it
HN cites it often in debates on inequality, cost disease and stagnant middle-class income, praising its data-driven approach.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- University of California Television (UCTV)
- Topic
- middle class finances
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 10
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2008–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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This is a great point. Not to get political myself, but if you compare this talk to Elizabeth Warren's "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class"[1] from a few years back, it's night and day. Before she made economic claims, she described her exhaustive process …
JackC on Hacker News · 2012-05
In TED and inequality: The real storyElizabeth Warren has answers: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren [VIDEO] Everyone should watch the video. She answers for the question of having more cars etc.
hannibal5 on Hacker News · 2013-09
In Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989I was watching a video by Elizabeth Warren of Harvard Law School on the topic the other day. The gist of it is (I think) basically that housing and healthcare are taking up most of the money of the middle class. In the 1970-ties a …
timnic on Hacker News · 2008-05
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