"'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer."
American politician and legal scholar serving as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 2013. She is known for consumer-protection work and financial-regulation advocacy. Before elected office, she taught law and helped shape the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.