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☆ The American Dream is under siege
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Parents of young children are making difficult choices to afford child care — or they’re opting to evade it by dropping out of the workforce altogether. Even as the inflation rate has cooled across the US economy, child care remains a sore spot for many families. The weekly price of day care for a toddler surged 9% in 2023, according to Care.com, a marketplace for child care. Of course, Allison is hardly alone in feeling like the American Dream has been more difficult — and expensive — to attain than imagined. “The American dream is being taken away from the younger generation by the housing affordability challenges,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.

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☆ What broke the American Dream for Millennials
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

For their nine-month-old son, Miles, Rachael and Garrett agree: They’re not going to push him to pursue the same path. “This is the American Dream,” Rachael says. The nest egg mythA common refrain Millennials heard from their Boomer parents is that buying is always better than renting. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCentral to the pitch of the American Dream is a house. “I don’t think anyone could have foreseen house prices going up 20% or 30% in a three-year period,” Garrett says.

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☆ Peter Loftus — Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Peter Loftus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peter LoftusPeter Loftus is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Philadelphia covering the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries. He has written about Covid-19 vaccines, advances in cancer treatments, drug shortages and the use of mobile devices in healthcare. Peter is the author of "The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World," published in 2022 by Harvard Business Review Press. Before joining the Journal in 2013, he was a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires since 1997, covering the pharmaceutical and technology industries. He previously worked as a courthouse reporter at the Reporter newspaper in Lansdale, Pa.

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