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Mechele Dickerson and Jeffrey H. Cohen

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Mechele Dickerson
Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Professor of Anthropology, Director, Transnational Research Lab, The Ohio State University

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Maybe not, if you work on Wall Street. Reuters

April 1, 2016

Is the American Dream dead?

Mechele Dickerson, The University of Texas at Austin

Falling homeownership rates, stagnant wages and diminishing retirement savings mean that for more and more Americans, the middle-class dream is slowly dying – if it’s not already gone.