By: Talia SpillermanMassachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren, just announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president for the 2020 election at a rally on Feb 9, 2019. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Warren grew up in a working class family. Eventually, she graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in speech pathology. She and her husband then raised their two children in New Jersey where Warren worked as a speech pathologist and worked to get her law degree.
Once she became a practicing lawyer, she realized that many laws were forcing middle-class families who had financial distress such as a divorce or a job loss to become bankrupt, inspiring Warren to become an expert in bankruptcy law. In 1980, two years after her divorce to her first husband, Warren remarried and moved to Massachusetts where she became a professor at Harvard Law School. She advised the National Bankruptcy Review Commission and chaired the Congressional Oversight panel. In 2010, President Obama appointed Warren to Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CNN). By 2011, Warren stepped down from this position to then a month later announce her campaign for massachusetts senator (Biography.com). During her senatorial campaign, Warren claimed she had Native American ancestry, which had anthropologists challenging this claim. Warren then apologized for this inaccurate statement claiming it was what she had been told growing up and she had never used this supposed ancestry for any personal gain (biography.com) Though, in 1986 Warren listed her race as "American Indian" on a State Bar of Texas registration card (Washington Post). Still, Warren won the 2012 massachusetts senate seat. As a senator, Warren has served on the senate banking, health, education, labor and aging committees. She helped shaped the direction of the democratic party. During the 2016 election, Warren endorsed Hillary Clinton, accompanying Clinton on many campaign rallies. In December 2018, Warren announced the launching of her presidential exploratory committee and then on February 9, 2019, Warren officially announced her candidacy (CNN). Warren, who isidewith.com rates as “left-winged”, supports higher taxes on the wealthy and corporation, a greater federal minimum wage and increased gun control. She also endorses Obamacare, is pro-choice, for alternate energy sources and the amnesty of illegal immigrants if they pay taxes (isidewith.com).
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