The son of a factory worker, I grew up in a trailer park and come from a distinctly working-class background. The same American Dream that I experienced is something worth protecting for future ...

He then asked if I believed the American Dream is accessible to everyone regardless of identity; in short, yes, if they want it bad enough. The American Dream is possible, not inevitable.

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 ...

I believe in the traditional American dream. But it won't be around for my kids to inherit. For my Gen Z peers, the American dream is an elastic term – so elastic, in fact, that it begins to ...

In the wake of bipartisan politics, racism-fuelled riots and the storming of the United States Capitol, the concept of the American Dream and its ability to exist today, is a prescient topic. ‘The ...

Andrea Elliott is one of many people on TikTok who believe "the new American dream is to leave America." The 37-year-old fled the American "rat-race" and moved to Bali.

LA Post reports on a new UCLA study that reveals while 86% of young people want to achieve the American dream, 60% doubt they will ever get there.

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 ...

We all know how enticing the American Dream is. It goes like this: Through hard work, anyone can have great financial success, whatever their background. Often, that financial success takes on a ...

Sariel Friedman explores the evolving construction of the American dream, including its depictions in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gish Gen, Saul Bellow and others. Upward mobility ...

Americans of all ages are increasingly skeptical of the American dream. As a new crop of shiny young people graduate from high school, college and professional schools this month, we wanted to ask ...