With the sole exception of 2020, the year large segments of the U.S. economy were shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, American gross domestic product increased every year since 2009.

The American Dream has fallen on hard times. Just 53% of respondents to a 2024 Pew Research Center poll said that they could still achieve the American Dream, while another 41% said it was once ...

My version of the American dream is a country where democracy and voting rights for all is valued and seen as the core to our way of life. Ed Morell, 72, Cleveland A retiree who voted for Mr. Trump.

Verdict: The American Dream is alive-ish Buying a Car It’s become more expensive to buy a car over the past 30 years, which may be why our typical family has fewer of them (2.7 in 1990 compared ...

Higher-income Americans are also more likely than others to say the American dream is still achievable. While 64% of upper-income Americans say the American dream still exists, 39% of lower-income ...

You can live the American Dream, but it will cost you. The lifetime tab for such aspirations as owning a home, driving new cars, raising kids and taking annual vacations comes to a cool $4.4 ...

The American dream symbolizes many abstract ideals: hard work, assimilation, equal opportunity. But for generations it has meant one particular path in life: Get a job, ...

Not everyone agrees that the dream is dying. "The American dream is of individual upward mobility, not social progress toward uniformity," John Early and former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) said in ...

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The American Dream Feels Out of Reach for Most A Wall Street Journal poll shows people want a home, a family and a comfortable retirement, but say those goals are tough to achieve even with hard work.