What happened to the American Dream?

When It Was Real


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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 actually created the postwar boom, the specific policies behind it, who was systematically excluded from it, and the man who named the dream before it was fully real.


Every claim is fact-checkable using federal economic data and documented historical records.


This is Episode 2 of an ongoing series.


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What happened to the American Dream?By Ashley