The American Dream https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:36:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg The American Dream https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Few Still Believe In The American Dream https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/few-still-believe-in-the-american-dream/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:00:17 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=25275 Written by David E. Smith

According to a recent Wall Street Journal/NORC survey, just 36% of Americans believe that “the American dream still holds true.” This figure is a significant drop from surveys taken in 2012 (when 53% of Americans believed that the American Dream remained viable) and in 2016 (when 48% of Americans believed that the American Dream was real). Furthermore, a recent NBC News survey showed that 19% were “confident that life for their children’s generation would be better than for the current one—a record low.”… Continue Reading

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