The 21st century has not been kind to the American dream. The dream that brought millions of “the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free” to America rests on the idea that each generation will have it better than the one before it. But a new sampling of economic circumstances of Americans finds that in nearly 90 percent of communities surveyed across the country the middle class is in decline. It’s not the best part of the legacy that President Obama, who arrived at the White House with his famously expressed view that America is no more exceptional than a lot of other nations, is about to leave behind.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/23/editorial-the-shrinking-american-dream/
