Decades of rising income inequality and slowing economic growth have eroded a pillar of the American dream: the hope that each generation will do better than the one that came before, according to ...

In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care ...

Inequality undermines people’s faith in ... Parts of “The Betrayal of the American Dream” could benefit fromStiglitz’s obsessive footnoting. In one section where the authors discuss ...

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) lays out the profound changes in the American Dream over the last half-century in a 2016 publication, “What We Know About Economic Inequality and Social ...

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

If seeing inequality can equate to seeing opportunity, the American dream makes US society more tolerant of large disparities. The second dynamic, highlighted by Culpepper and his co-authors, ...

“The American dream isn’t about just getting rich ... Entrepreneur Jeff Atwood sees the staggering wealth inequality in the U.S. today as unfair, astonishing, and un-American.

she and filmmaker Kathleen Hughes decided to make the documentary American Dream and Other Fairy Tales to shed light on the subject of wage and income inequality. It did not hurt that the Disney ...

The American dream teaches us that if you work hard enough ... UNIDENTIFIED: The Disney Company is ground zero of the widening inequality in America. ABIGAIL DISNEY: You know, I think of it ...

This documentary by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes is a critique of the Walt Disney Company, but its lessons are basic and obvious. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

A quote that has been rattling around my head recently is ‘aside from the moral case against it, inequality above a moderate level creates a kind of society that even crusty conservatives hate ...