What is the American Dream, and has it become harder to achieve in recent years?

Few ideas are as central to the nation’s identity as that of the American Dream. With the 250th birthday of the United States ...
Study Finds

Is The American Dream Becoming A Myth? Why It Feels Harder To Achieve Than Ever For So Many

Hard work, hope, and freedom once defined the American Dream. New data suggests all three are becoming harder than ever for ...
Yahoo Finance

Ryan Serhant thinks the American Dream was just a ‘slogan created by banks,’ but it was really about FDR, the Great Depression, and an economic crisis

In an era in which homeownership feels increasingly further out of reach, one real estate CEO is trying to dispel the idea homeownership is the true American Dream. But U.S. mortgage history would beg ...
Kentucky Lantern

Mark Robert Rank, The Conversation

Mark Robert Rank Mark Robert Rank is a professor of social welfare at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Hill

How much does the ‘American dream’ cost in your state?

(NEXSTAR) — For years, the American dream seemed attainable. A home with a yard surrounded by a picket fence; a dog named Fido or Spot running around with your two kids as you come home from a nice ...