Title:
The American dream / [compiled by] Grey House Publishing.
Author:
Grey House Publishing, Inc., compiler.
Publication Information:
Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
E169.12 .A44 2018
Abstract:
The American Dream explores the sturdiness of this idea of The American Dream in 2018. Is the American dream of upward mobility accessible in a society so fragmented and economically unequal? Does the American Dream still exist in a country experiencing an anti-immigration trend? Have economic policies had an impact on American striving? This issue also explores the relationship between education and jobs, technological displacement of workers, downward mobility among certain groups, labor mobility and home ownership as indicators of the health of the idea of the American Dream. - Publisher
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ISBN:
9781682178683
9781682177471
Series:
The reference shelf ; volume 90, number 5
Reference shelf ; v. 90, no. 5.
Physical Description:
xii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
dream of becoming American -- For the child of immigrants, the American dream can be a nightmare / Reunited, an immigrant family tries to put their life back together / Six immigrant stories that will make you believe in the American dream again / The unique traits Americans developed from decades of immigration / decades-long campaign to cut legal immigration / Places in the US that took in more immigrants in the 19th century still benefit economically from it
great American success story -- Economic inequality : it's far worse than you think / cost of the American dream / Inequality and the American dream / American dream, quantified at last / Is owning a home still essential to the American dream?
Dreaming in color -- My immigrant family achieved the American dream : then I started to question it / racial wealth gap and today's American dream / Why Blacks believe in the American dream more than whites / federal college loan program is exacerbating the racial wealth gap / Where slavery thrived, inequality rules today
Transforming the dream -- transformation of the "American dream" / economy is changing and so is the American dream / Rethinking the American dream / Is the American dream really dead? / American "exceptionalism" is holding America back from greatness
future of the American dream -- Technology : killer or savior of the American dream? / Technology disrupting the American dream / Is China leaping past us? / Cities are killing the future of work ( and the American dream) / American innovation is in trouble / ugly truth about America's economy in just four words
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