Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren grew up on the ragged edge of the middle class. Her family came an inch from losing their house after her dad’s heart attack, but her mom got a minimum wage job at Sears that saved their family. She dropped out of college at 19 to get married, but she got a second chance at a public college that cost $50 a semester and got to live her dream of becoming a public school teacher.

Going from teaching young children to teaching law students, she dedicated her career to studying why families go broke and fighting to rebuild the middle class. After Wall Street crashed our economy in 2008, she fought to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to protect people from getting tricked and scammed by big banks and corporations. The CFPB has already returned more than $19 billion to American consumers who’ve been cheated.

As the Bay State’s senior U.S. senator, Elizabeth has fought for Massachusetts families and delivered results, including getting student loan debt cancellation to the president’s desk, passing a new federal tax on giant corporations that had been getting away with paying $0, lowering the cost of hearing aids, holding big banks accountable, and funding critical projects that create good-paying jobs across the Commonwealth. She’s also driven the national conversation as one of the country’s leading progressive voices, advancing bold ideas to end Washington corruption, strengthen our democracy, tackle systemic racism, and rebuild the middle class.