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.

Economists who relate the American Dream to "social mobility" claim that, because fewer people are out-earning their parents now as compared to the 1940s, there's a decline in the dream itself.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Dream is built upon equality of opportunity, a color-blind society, representative democracy, and consent of the governed (the absence of a threatening, totalitarian government).

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 ...

According to Archbridge’s survey, young people are also the most pessimistic about their ability to achieve the American Dream: While 53% of 45- to 59-year-olds and 64% of those over 60 agree ...