Although life in the United States continues to change and evolve, the definition of the American Dream has stayed pretty consistent. A recent Clever Real Estate study found that millennials, Gen X ...

For decades, the American dream meant upward mobility, but many young people today define it as simply achieving stability. To them, securing housing, a stable career, health care and education are ...

The concept of the American Dream has served as a guiding ethos for the United States for nearly a century, yet its meaning has shifted dramatically alongside the nation's cultural and economic ...

Its definition is now evolving as each generation has different views of what success looks like today. That evolution isn't gradual. It feels more like a generational rupture. In April of 2024, Pew ...

People have different ideas of success and what it means to “make it.” Historically, the U.S. has been seen as the land of opportunity, where anyone can succeed and make serious money if they put ...

It isn’t uncommon for people to find themselves in routines that leave them unfulfilled: working jobs that feel disconnected from their passions or comparing their lives to curated images on social ...

What prompted the idea for the course? One of us – Steve Fazzari – was trained as an economist, and the other – Mark Rank – as a sociologist. We’ve shared scholarly interests over the years as ...