A Generation’s Changing American Dream (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/08/19/changing-american-dream

Everybody knows how tough it’s been for a generation of young Americans just hitting the workforce – or trying to – in the last half dozen years.  American twenty-somethings have walked straight into a wall of recession.  Been knocked back into parents’ homes and recalculations of what life will bring.

My guest today Jennifer Silva says that recalculation is deeper than you may understand – especially for low-income Americans.  Back on their heels and feeling betrayed, she says, they are redefining the American dream sharply downward.

This hour, On Point:  young Americans’ new dreams.

- Tom Ashbrook