The American Dream

Resources from this episode (the show notes): https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/american-dream.asp (The American Dream | Investopedia) https://youtu.be/C48aGtPIuZo (National: Defining the American Dream | The New York Times (YouTube)) https://daily.jstor.org/james-truslow-adams-dreaming-american-dream/ (James Truslow Adams: Dreaming up the American Dream) https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-american-dream-quotes-and-history-3306009 (What is the American Dream? | The Balance) https://youtu.be/C7qItGQFpuM (Living the American Dream, 1950s Suburban Life | Kinolibrary (YouTube)) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/why-the-homeownership-gap-between-white-and-black-americans-is-larger-today-than-it-was-over-50-years-ago.html (Why the homeownership gap between White and Black Americans is larger today than it was over 50 years ago | CNBC) https://www.ushistory.org/documents/economic_bill_of_rights.htm (FDR's Economic Bill of Rights | USHistory.org) https://millercenter.org/president/harry-s-truman/key-events (Harry Truman and the Fair Deal) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/postwar-era/a/the-gi-bill (The GI Bill | Khan Academy) https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/10/counties-where-the-american-dream-is-dead/111911444/ (In these counties across the US, the American Dream may already be dead | USAToday) https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index-2020-why-economies-benefit-from-fixing-inequality (Global Social Mobility Index 2020 | World Economic Forum) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-white-picket-fence-180971635/ (History of the White Picket Fence | Smithsonian Magazine) https://www.congress.gov/member/district/dan-crenshaw/C001120 (Dan Crenshaw's District | Congress.gov)