A new poll found plummeting confidence in the American Dream – that if you work hard, you get ahead. “It’s the sense that something structural has changed in the economy,” says Wall Street Reporter Aaron Zitner, “and that we’re more fragile – and that this is a longer-term problem than, say, inflation, which tends to be transitory.”A new poll found plummeting confidence in the American Dream – that if you work hard, you get ahead. “It’s the sense that something structural has changed in the economy,” says Wall Street Reporter Aaron Zitner, “and that we’re more fragile – and that this is a longer-term problem than, say, inflation, which tends to be transitory.”
