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The Two-Income Trap Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke

Elizabeth Warren

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Senator Elizabeth Warren and consultant Amelia Warren Tyagi, the classic book about America's middle class -- and why economic security remains out of reach for many. In this exposé, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi show that modern middle-class fami...

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The Ben Shapiro Show

Elizabeth Warren wrote this book while at Harvard Law School, where she suggested that providing free health care and free childcare actually disincentivizes people from having many children by incentivizing two parents to remain in the workforce.

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Elizabeth Warren actually made a pretty interesting argument against this back when she was in her more, I think, philosophically interesting days when she was more heterodox. Let's put it that way an...

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Elizabeth Warren wrote this book while at Harvard Law School, where she suggested that providing free health care and free childcare actually disincentivizes people from having many children by incentivizing two parents to remain in the workforce.

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Elizabeth Warren actually made a pretty interesting argument against this back when she was in her more, I think, philosophically interesting days when she was more heterodox. Let's put it that way and in the two income trap back what she was at Harvard Law School, in which she suggested that it actually provides a certain disincentive to people to have lots of kids, to provide free health, to provide free childcare because it actually incentivizes two parents in the workforce.

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