Rachel Wolff
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45 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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They can't plan a wedding.
They can't plan for kids because they need to have the house in order to do all of those things that they can't.
hit this first rung on this ladder.
And so then they can't keep moving.
So they feel pretty stuck.
They feel like they had the dream that the country promised them something and then took it away.
So Americans overwhelmingly still desire all the traditional trappings that we have always associated with the American dream.
Think owning a home, having a family, and looking forward to a comfortable retirement.
But now the difference is that very few believe they can easily achieve it.
A July poll that was a collaboration between the Wall Street Journal and NORC showed a super stark gap between people's wishes and their expectations.
So while the vast majority of respondents said that they wanted to own a home, for example, only 10% said home ownership is easy or somewhat easy to achieve.
Financial security and a comfortable retirement were similarly labeled as essential or important by 96% and 95% of people, but then rated as achievable by only 9% and 8%.
It's never that the American dream has been easy.
The point is that it was possible.
And if you worked hard, probable that you would ultimately get these things like a house, a family, comfortable retirement, that it was within reach.
reach if you followed the rules.
Twelve years ago, when researchers at Public Religion Research Institute asked this question of whether the American dream still holds true, over 50% of people said, yes, it's still possible.
Now that's only about a third of Americans.
And so the
What we're seeing is that this faith that it's out there for people is plummeting.
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