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1 de sept. de 2003 · "The Two-Income Trap" lays out a counter-intuitive case for why so many middle class families are going deep into debt and declaring bankruptcy. The authors disagree with the conventional wisdom that Americans are spending their way into a hole by racking up needless luxury purchases.
18 de ago. de 2004 · In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before.
1 de ene. de 2003 · Nearly two decades ago, Elizabeth Warren famously identified this as "the two-income trap," in which both parents in a household are forced to work longer and harder just to maintain the same...
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke is a 2004 popular nonfiction book by Elizabeth Warren and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi. The book examines the causes of increasing rates of personal bankruptcy and economic insecurity in American households.
3 de sept. de 2003 · Warren, a law professor at Harvard (The Fragile Middle Class) and her daughter Tyagi, a former McKinsey consultant, have joined forces here to argue here that the two-parent middle-class working family is on the brink of financial disaster.
24 de nov. de 2010 · English. Includes bibliographical references and index. Just the way she planned -- The over-consumption myth -- Mom: the all-purpose safety net -- The myth of the immoral debtor -- Going it alone in a two-income world -- The cement life raft -- The financial fire drill.
The authors show why the usual remedies--child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women--won't solve the problem, and propose a set of innovative solutions, from rate caps on credit cards to open-access public schools, to restore security to the middle class.
