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1 online resource (xii, 155 pages) : color illustrations
Explores the relationship between education and jobs, technological displacement of workers, downward mobility among certain groups, labor mobility and home ownership as indicators of the health of the idea of the American Dream.
Preface -- Immigration -- The Dream of Becoming American -- For the Child of Immigrants, the American Dream Can Be a Nightmare -- Reunited, an Immigrant Family Tries to Put Their Life Back Together -- Six Immigrant Stories That Will Make You Believe in the American Dream Again -- The Unique Traits Americans Developed from Decades of Immigration -- The Decades-Long Campaign to Cut Legal Immigration -- Places in the US That Took in More Immigrants in the 19th Century Still Benefit Economically from It -- Mobility and Equality -- The Great American Success Story -- Economic Inequality: It's Far Worse Than You Think -- The Cost of the American Dream -- Inequality and the American Dream -- The American Dream, Quantified at Last -- Is Owning a Home Still Essential to the American Dream? -- Race and the American Dream -- Dreaming in Color -- My Immigrant Family Achieved the American Dream: Then I Started to Question It -- The Racial Wealth Gap and Today's American Dream -- Why Blacks Believe in the American Dream More Than Whites -- A Federal College Loan Program Is Exacerbating the Racial Wealth Gap -- Where Slavery Thrived, Inequality Rules Today -- The American Dream Over Time -- Transforming the Dream -- The Transformation of the "American Dream" -- The Economy Is Changing and So Is the American Dream -- Rethinking the American Dream -- Is the American Dream Really Dead? -- American "Exceptionalism" Is Holding America Back from Greatness -- Future of the Dream -- The Future of the American Dream -- Technology: Killer or Savior of the American Dream? -- Technology Disrupting the American Dream -- Is China Leaping Past Us?
Cities Are Killing the Future of Work (and the American Dream) -- American Innovation Is in Trouble -- The Ugly Truth about America's Economy in Just Four Words -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.