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"My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack."
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Source: Elizabeth Warren: Bank Bonuses Leave Me “Speechless”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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