The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke

In this exposé, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi show that modern middle-class families are increasingly trapped by the grinding reality of flat wages and rising costs. Warren and Tyagi reveal how a ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class, and placing unprecedented pressure on hard-working families. Revolutionary when it was first published in 2003, remains disturbingly relevant today. Now with a new introduction by the authors, shows why the usual remedies won't solve the problem and points toward the policy changes that would create better opportunities for both parents and children.