Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
Contents:
The ugly truth about America's economy in just four words / Linette Lopez, Business Insider, October 1, 2017. Reunited, an immigrant family tries to put their life back together / Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, August 1, 2018 -- Six immigrant stories that will make you believe in the American dream again / Monte Burke, Forbes, October 25, 2016 -- The unique traits Americans developed from decades of immigration / Ana Campoy, Quartz, February 13, 2018 -- The decades-long campaign to cut legal immigration / Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, August 8, 2017 -- Places in the US that took in more immigrants in the 19th century still benefit economically from it / Dan Kopf, Quartz, June 3, 2017 -- The great American success story economic inequality : it's far worse than you think / Nicholas Fitz, Scientific American, March 31, 2015 -- The cost of the American dream / The Economist, September 8, 2017 -- Inequality and the American dream / Ben Casselman, FiveThirtyEight, December 8, 2016 -- The American dream, quantified at last / David Leonhardt, The New York Times, December 8, 2016 -- Is owning a home still essential to the American dream? / Nicholas Padiak, The Chicago Tribune, June 7, 2017 -- Dreaming in color my immigrant family achieved the American dream : then I started to question it / Amanda Machado, Vox, January 9, 2017 -- The racial wealth gap and today's American dream / Erin Currier and Sheida Elmi, The Pew Charitable Trusts, February 16, 2018 -- Why Blacks believe in the American dream more than whites / Tami Luhby, CNN Money, November 25, 2015 -- A federal college loan program is exacerbating the racial wealth gap / Dwyer Gunn, Pacific Standard, May 18, 2018 -- Where slavery thrived, inequality rules today / Stephanie Mihm, The Boston Globe, August 24, 2014 -- Transforming the dream : the transformation of the "American dream" / Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, August 4, 2017 -- The economy is changing and so is the American dream / Jared Meyer, Forbes, March 22, 2017 -- Rethinking the American dream / David Kamp, Vanity Fair, April, 2009 -- Is the American dream really dead? / Carol Graham, The Guardian, June 20, 2017 -- American "exceptionalism" is holding America back from greatness / Alasdair S. Roberts, Quartz, March 21, 2018 -- The future of the American dream technology : killer or savior of the American dream? / Frida Polli, Forbes, October 12, 2017 -- Technology disrupting the American dream / Richard Cohen, The Washington Post, January 19, 2015 -- Is China leaping past us? / Daniel Kliman and Harry Krejsa, Politico, September 11, 2017 -- Cities are killing the future of work ( and the American dream) / Stephane Kasriel, Fast Company, January 18, 2018 -- American innovation is in trouble / Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, January 1, 2015 -- The ugly truth about America's economy in just four words / Linette Lopez, Business Insider, October 1, 2017.
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