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Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

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Elizabeth Warren
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.
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It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.
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My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.
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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
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I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.
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Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.
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