{"id":1075,"date":"2014-01-28T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=17304"},"modified":"2014-01-28T07:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:24:50","slug":"is-the-american-dream-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/01\/is-the-american-dream-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the American Dream Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Is the American Dream dead? Maybe in the South, according to new data from researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As Matthew O\u2019Brien reports in The Atlantic, the study finds that those who strive to move up economically have about the same chances as people did in the 1950s. However, your economic prospects depend not only on indicators like race, inequality, and family structure, but also on region and the degree of inequality in your local community. O\u2019Brien notes that the bigger the gap between the rich and the poor, the less mobility there is. PRRI\u2019s Economic Values Survey found that nearly half (47 percent) of Americans say they are worse off financially than their parents\u2019 generation. 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