1. Dreams Dreamt, A Promise Not Kept: The Gap between the American Dream and American Reality

2. mEET aNTONIO Viglione

7. Today’S amERICAN dREAM
-Today’s Working class don’t believe hard work will get them ahead.
-Only 50% of children born in the eighties earn more than their parents
-90% of children born in the forties (My Nonno’s generation) earned more than their parents
-Many also are not able to fluidly move jobs anymore
-This lack of upward mobility makes it difficult to achieve the American Dream.

8. Happiness or lack thereof
-The ideals of the American Dream combined with success stories is toxic to the American psyche.
-Many Americans view their lack of success as a character flaw about them or that they don’t deserve success.
-This leads to unhappiness and low self esteem.
-This combines with view that we are letting down their family.

9. Reality? -WE LET THEM DOWN!
-Today’s societal and economic structures facilitate mobility and achievement.
-College expenses, decent jobs dwindling, difficult to take risks.
-We no longer believe in a better tomorrow (polls about the future)
-It is imperative we instill hope and belief in opportunity again.