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Going for Broke: Middle Class Families

December 4, 2003
Elizabeth Warren bankruptcy expert, Harvard Law School
Robert Frank professor, Cornell University Business School
Meg Jacobs writer, historian, MIT
Fred Breimyer economist, FDIC Boston

Elizabeth Warren anchors a panel on modern-day home economics.

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