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Sunday, January 24th, 2016

White people have least confidence in the American Dream

Author:     Catey Hill
Source:     Market Watch
Publication Date:     Jan 22, 2016 2:58 p.m. ET
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Stephan:   I have been doing a lot of travelling recently, talking about my new book, The 8 Laws of Change. And the one constant I am hearing from all over the country, but particularly in the Central-West and East is the sense of their world being lost before their eyes that I get from White people. This is, of course, all part of the Vanishing White Majority Trend and it is, I think, what is fueling the Trump campaign. Unfortunately, corporate media cannot address this issue, except obliquely so we are having almost no public conversation on one of the biggest social trends in our history. The result: Anger, fear, hate, frustration, and depression.
Leave it to Beaver on set cast photo

Leave it to Beaver on set cast photo

Americans say the American Dream is suffering — and that our laziness and low morals may be partially to blame.

Searches for “American Dream” have fallen 24% since Google began tracking this data in 2004 — and when you type “American Dream” into Google, three of the four top autofills are “dead,” “a lie” and “leaving America,” according to an analysis of Google Trends data released Friday in a report by brokerage firm Convergex.

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Furthermore, three in four Americans now say that the “American Dream” — broadly, the notion that through hard work and determination every American can have a successful life — is suffering, according to the 7th Annual American Values Survey unveiled last year at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

What’s more, 69% say the obstacles to realizing the dream are “more severe today than ever” — and note that a decline in work ethic is the primary hurdle to Dream achievement. The poll of […]

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