From tinier homes and fewer kids to less vacation time and longer commutes, America's aspirations are getting smaller by the ...

The American Dream is coming back. by Kristina Hooper @CNNMoney January 13, 2015: 10:39 AM ET . Since the Great Recession began, the American Dream has been a distant memory.

The American Dream had become heavily focused on materialism, but the ballooning in expectations of wealth can be linked back to the Money Decade of the 1980′s, when free enterprise was given ...

"If you're new to this country, then life seems pretty good here," Delahorne said. "But for many people who have lived here a long time, they've started to think of the American Dream less as the ...

The new American Dream is about living large and making it big. But if we don’t have basic financial literacy, we can’t even make it small. The old American Dream was only achievable by a few.

Way back in booming 1995, a Business Week/Harris poll found that two-thirds of Americans believed that the American dream had become harder to achieve in the previous decade, and three-quarters ...

The US, then, is back to its pre-Great Depression economy. Except that in 2025, it’s an economy in which the consumer habits of the wealthiest 10 percent have an outsized influence compared with ...

America isn’t an abstract idea, and the American Dream isn’t an illusion. I’ve lived the American Dream. The son of a factory worker, I grew up in a trailer park and come from a distinctly ...

He then asked if I believed the American Dream is accessible to everyone regardless of identity; in short, yes, if they want it bad enough. The American Dream is possible, not inevitable.

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late ...More 1800s), Washington, DC, 1969. The portriat was one of three painted by Healy (sometimes ...

If your American Dream includes an annual vacation, then face facts: A lifetime of vacations will cost you $179,000, Investopedia reports. And that figure sounds conservative.