The Two-Income Trap - Elizabeth Warren [139]
Murray, Patricia
NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Nashville bankruptcy data collection
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Consumer Bankruptcy
Coalition (NCBC)
National Housing Institute
NCBC. See National Consumer Bankruptcy Coalition
Newman, Katherine
Newsweek
New York State Banking Department
New York Times
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Payday loans
Pelosi, Nancy
Pennsylvania
Bankruptcy data collection
Philadelphia
Planning. See Financial planning
Police officers
Political contributions. See also Campaign finance reform
Porter, Katherine
Pottow, John
Poverty
being “house poor,”
poverty line
Preschool. See Education
Professors. See Teachers/professors
Public goods
Public housing
Regulations
reregulating lending practices
See also Deregulation of lending industry
Religious leaders
Renting
Repossessions. See also under Automobiles
Republicans. See also George W. Bush, Orrin Hatch, Henry Hyde
Retirement/retirement accounts
Risk(fig.)(fig.)
after filing for bankruptcy
of lenders
See also under Families
Safety issues
and automobiles and car seats
See also Crime; Violence
Safety net
S&L. See Savings and Loan crisis
Saving(s) (fig.)
as tax exempt
Savings and Loan (S&L) crisis
Schill, Michael
School transportation expenses
Schools. See Education.
Schor, Juliet
Schumer, Charles
Sears retail chain
She Works, He Works: How Two-Income Families Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off
Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSDI)
South Dakota usury laws
Sports, college
SSDI. See Social Security, Disability Insurance
Steinbeck, John
Student loans
and bankruptcy
Subsidies
Suburbs
Sullivan, Teresa A.
Supply and demand. See also Bidding wars
Supreme Court
Taxes
and bankruptcy
on savings
tax credits
Teachers/professors
Tennessee bankruptcy data collection
Texaco
Texas
bankruptcy data collection
bankruptcy laws
Thacher, Thomas D.
Thorne, Deborah
Two-income trap
and one-income families
and single-parent families
See also Families, with one income; Families, with stay-at-home mothers; Families, with two incomes; Safety net
Unemployment
unemployment insurance
See also Layoffs
United Airlines
Universities. See also Education, college education
Urban centers
urban flight
U.S. News & World Report
Usury laws
Vacation spending
Values
Violence
Violence Against Women Act
Voucher programs. See under Education
Wachter, Susan
Wages
differential in men’s/women’s
garnishing
growth of women’s
Weill, Sandy
Weitzman, Lenore
Welfare
Westbrook, Jay Lawrence
Widows
Wisconsin, University of
Women
bankruptcy and
childless
education
income
legal protections
in the workforce
See also Divorce; Families; Feminism; Mothers; Women’s movement
Women’s movement. See also Feminism
Woolhandler, Steffie
YWCA
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She has coauthored six books on bankruptcy and commercial law, including the prizewinning As We Forgive Our Debtors and The Fragile Middle Class. She was senior adviser to the 1997 Congressional Bankruptcy Review Commission on Bankruptcy. In 1998, the National Law Journal named her one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America. She is the mother of two grown children, and she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband.
Amelia Warren Tyagi holds degrees from Brown University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, where she specialized in health care and public education. In 1999, she cofounded a health benefits firm, HealthAllies. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two-year-old daughter.
Warren and Tyagi are mother and daughter. This is their first book together.
Copyright © 2003 by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
Published by Basic Books,
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Hardback