High school students and their parents are considering the benefits of trade school versus college. It's on The Excerpt.

Whether a person grew up in a crowded tenement building, at the end of a dusty road in farm country, or traveled over land ...

Leonhardt quotes Randolph in words that could summarize Leonhardt ... and its impacts will fall on lower-wage workers first. In the 21st century, the American dream is no longer shaped (if it ever was ...

Many respondents had similar sentiments: the American Dream never existed, and Black Americans need to build their own dream.

It costs an arm and a leg to live in the land of the free. The price of the American Dream now stands at $4.4 million — a mind-boggling $1 million more than what it cost just a year ago and $1 ...

I have lived the American Dream. Some say that dream is dead today, but I beg to differ. One of the great promises of this country is that an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 new businesses were ...

Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. What is the American Dream? It is a complicated question, but a new survey from the Archbridge Institute sheds some light on how ...

Immigrants who journey to the United States for a better life often say they are coming in search of the American dream. But many people in the U.S. — immigrants and natural-born citizens alike ...

THE AMERICAN DREAM — often idealized by the house and white picket fence — has been debated, pondered and relentlessly pursued by those who have lived in the United States for generations ...

The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly ...

About half of Americans still think the American Dream — the idea that anyone can get ahead through hard work and determination — is achievable, according to findings released Tuesday by Pew ...