This article was originally published on Medium. Believing that the next generation will generally do better than the current one is an often unspoken, but essential, piece of the American Dream. Arguably the best way to gauge the health of this part of the...
This article originally appeared in The Hill. This week, special interests all over the country received a belated Christmas present from the Trump administration. In a joint op-ed, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Republican South...
This article originally appeared in The Hill. Is the American dream dead for young Americans? Research published by the Equality of Opportunity project suggests that only 50 percent of children born in the 1980s are earning more than their parents. This...
This article originally appeared on Medium. The best known definition of the American Dream is by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America: … that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity...
By Brian Meehan, Edward Timmons, and Andrew Meehan — November 2, 2017 Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Is the American Dream still alive? Researchers at the Equality of Opportunity Project produced a new data set tracking economic mobility and note...
This article was originally published in Quillette. This is a review of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It, by Richard V. Reeves. Brookings Institution...