Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts and Professor of Law (on leave) at Harvard Law School; author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class
Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke and co-author of All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan; former chair of the Troubled Assets Relief Program's Congressional Oversight Committee
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