"My" American Dream? ;-)
"According to a poll conducted by YouGov during August 2013, 41 percent of Americans said it is impossible for most to achieve the American Dream and 38 percent said it is still possible"
Bearing in mind that YouGov is Internet based, inner city unemployed probably are unrepresented in this sample.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
