Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
A family relying on a teacher's salary or a city employee's salary is solidly middle class as long as that money's coming in. When it's cut off, they're committed to financial obligations that will quickly turn them upside down.
In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.