What happened to the American Dream?

Who Really Destroyed the American Dream? In this episode of "What Happened to the American Dream?" I trace the systematic dismantling of worker protections, fair wages, and labor dignity and identify exactly who's responsible. Corporate power driven by maximizing returns to shareholders has exploited and magnified economic inequalities  (World Economic Forum) , transforming the Amer...

The federal government ran documented programs that deliberately excluded Black, Native American, Japanese American and Latino communities from the same prosperity being sold as the American Dream. This is not opinion. Every policy covered in this episode is sourced to federal records, congressional documents and the National Archives. This investigative deep dive covers redlining, GI Bill exclusi...

For about 28 years after World War Two the American Dream was genuinely real for millions of working people. One income bought a house. Unions protected wages. The GI Bill built a middle class. But that prosperity was never available to everyone equally. And the documented history of who was left out tells you everything about who designed the system and for whom. In this episode we look at what a...

What happened to the American Dream? Most of us grew up believing that if you worked hard enough you could own a home, support a family and give your kids a better life. Where did that idea actually come from? Why does it feel so out of reach for so many people today? In this first episode we go back to the origin of the American Dream, what it actually was, when it was real, and when it started d...