Living the American Dream now costs just over $5 million dollars. That’s the lifetime household price tag Investopedia calculated for eight pillars of classic American middle-class aspiration, from ...
The American Dream has long symbolized the promise of opportunity, prosperity, and upward mobility. Coined in 1931 by writer James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America, the term described "that dream ...
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