Ryuu96 on 05 September 2025
Nearly 70 percent of people in the poll said they believe the American dream — an idea that, no matter who you are or where you are from, if you work hard enough, you will achieve your goals in America — is no longer true or never was.
The number of people who believe the American dream is dead is the highest it's been in nearly 15 years of surveys, according to the WSJ.
The poll was fittingly published on Labor Day, a federal holiday that celebrates the social and economic achievements of American workers.
But only 25 percent of people in the WSJ-NORC poll believe they have a good chance of improving their standard of living, a historic low in surveys dating to 1987, according to the publication.
