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Don't Underestimate Elizabeth Warren and Her Populist Message; By John Cassidy

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Elizabeth Warren takes big step toward 2020 presidential run Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a major step towards a widely anticipated presidential run in 2020 by forming an exploratory committee. Warren is ...
Elizabeth Warren takes big step toward 2020 presidential run Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a major step towards a widely anticipated presidential run in 2020 by forming an exploratory committee. Warren is ...
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A dozens Dems are  thinking seriously about entering the primary; "it will take someone resolute, resilient, and well organized to prevail -- the winner will have to be someone who doesn’t shy away from confrontation," i.e. "At a 2016 hearing of the Banking Committee, on which Warren sits, she told the chief executive of  Wells Fargo that he should resign immediately and “give back the money you took while the scam was going on.” Some of  Warren’s critics say she is an old-style socialist, but that's not true. Rather than having the government take over  s he wants to use legislation and regulation to root out corporate abuses, correct glaring market failures, -- rebalance the power relationships between capital & labor, and big businesses & small businesses, saying: “I believe in markets, but markets work only when everyone gets a fair opportunity to compete.”

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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