The classic American Dream of owning a home is now officially out of reach for much of the middle class. A shortage of affordable properties is making homeownership nearly impossible, especially ...

The classic "American Dream" including two kids, a house, and car costs more than most make in a lifetime. Hiranmayi Srinivasan is an Associate Editor for Investopedia. She has covered personal ...

The American dream is attainable ... For a September report, Investopedia set out to calculate the lifetime costs of classic American goals and desires: homeownership, parenthood, a fancy wedding ...

Is the American Dream still attainable? More than a quarter of small business owners were sadly unable to say yes, but 72 percent felt that the classic concept of success is still manageable if ...

For most workers, this has been the classic American dream, but it has been slipping away for a few decades now as the economy and demographics have shifted. Of course, even in the past ...

The classic theme song of Walt Disney's Pinocchio ... The message of that iconic song conveyed something transcendent about the American Dream. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come ...

There are plenty of definitions for the American dream, but pulling one from those many terms and from what my father taught me, I would say that the classic American dream amounts to “a happy ...