Warren's rise started by looking at the bottom

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https://www.apnews.com/8bbb0cbe763a407db4a9b5d563dc56ca

Warren’s own childhood was steeped in financial insecurity. She often describes her Oklahoma upbringing as “the ragged edge of the middle class.” After her father recovered, he found work as a janitor. But there wasn’t money for college until Elizabeth Herring — the youngest of four and the only girl — parlayed her champion debating skills into a full scholarship.

She married at 19, became a mother at 22, divorced and remarried. After a brief stint as a speech therapist, she changed careers, attended Rutgers Law School and eventually landed a job at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

She asked to teach bankruptcy, she recalled in “A Fighting Chance,” her memoir, because she wanted to know what led people to “the edge of disaster,” but thought the question seemed too personal to ask openly.

Bankruptcy law can seem dense and dry, but Warren saw pain, guilt and hope among those filing into bankruptcy court. The prospect of second chances appealed to her, as she later explained to one of her students at Harvard Law School. U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, a Massachusetts Democrat, recalls sitting in her office one day asking her to explain some nuance of the bankruptcy code.

“I turned to her at one point and said, ‘You know, you could have taught anything. Why on God’s green earth did you possibly pick bankruptcy?’” recalls Kennedy, who has endorsed Warren’s candidacy. “And I still remember the answer. She said because it’s about the way in which people can get to pick themselves up and we help them start again after they fall.”

It wasn’t just the topic but how Warren and her colleagues pursued their research that set them apart.

Their work began in the early 1980s, when legal scholars tended to focus on businesses and academic papers. But Warren joined two university colleagues in Austin — Jay Westbrook, a law professor and bankruptcy expert, and Teresa Sullivan, a sociologist — for an on-the-ground study. They visited bankruptcy courts in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas."...............

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1. warren is a people's champion

biden worked to gut bankruptcy protections

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2. Thanks for this great

article! I am SO excited about Elizabeth Warren!