Yet the American Dream has always been hazy, its contours in the eye of the beholder. Depending on who you were, and from where you came, the ladder up was often missing a few rungs, and many had ...

You don’t need to buy a fancy dream journal or write down anything in particular, you just need to stick to it. With repetition, you may begin to remember more of your dreams.

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 ...

"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 is to live a life where you don’t have to struggle. But for many people, it’s actually becoming more like a dream. It’s harder to achieve. Ayo Suber, 42, San Francisco ...

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).

Race and ethnicity Roughly half of Americans in each racial and ethnic group say the American dream remains possible. And while relatively few Americans – just 6% overall – say that the American dream ...

The exam dream is a particularly common one for people who work to deadlines or those who are under significant pressure, she added. They may feel that they are not prepared for the level of ...