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.

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 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 ...

"The American dream is of individual upward mobility, not social progress toward uniformity," John Early and former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) said in the Journal in 2023.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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