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Voters See American Dream Slipping Out of Reach, WSJ/NORC Poll Shows [1]
['Aaron Zitner']
Date: 2023-12
Many Americans say it has become harder to achieve the American dream, which often includes the goal of owning a home. Photo: andrew caballero-reynolds/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
The American dream—the proposition that anyone who works hard can get ahead, regardless of their background—has slipped out of reach in the minds of many Americans.
Only 36% of voters in a new Wall Street Journal/NORC survey said the American dream still holds true, substantially fewer than the 53% who said so in 2012 and 48% in 2016 in similar surveys of adults by another pollster. When a Wall Street Journal poll last year asked whether people who work hard were likely to get ahead in this country, some 68% said yes—nearly twice the share as in the new poll.
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