Argumentative Essay On The American Dream

The American Dream In the past it was possible for a working person to have a decent job, buy a home, get a car, and have their children go to school. The American Dream is a set of national ideals, like having a decent job and owning a home, basically prosperity, that are achieved through personal ability and opportunity. Today people would argue that the American Dream is still alive and feasible, however, the increasing difficulty to achieve common social goals, that are often referred to in the American Dream, prove otherwise. In the past there were far less factors against people trying to live the American Dream. Today there are higher levels of student loan debt, poverty, and unemployment in comparison to past years. Of the class of 2014, 70 percent of them graduated with an average student loan debt of 30,000 dollars per borrower (“2016 State of the Millennial”). The rising cost of education (tuition has risen by over 500 percent since 1985) is leaving
On average, “Women in the U.S. who work full time, year round are typically paid only 79 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts,” (“The Wage Gap:”). Women are unfairly obligated to endure being paid less for doing the same amount of work, for the same amount of time, in the same field as men. Moreover, this staggering gap widens in terms of ethnicity as, “Latinas working full time year round are typically paid only 55 cents for every dollar paid to their white non-Hispanic male counterparts,” (“Equal Pay for Latinas”). Not only does this show the dramatic difference in wages but it also shows that contrary to the American Dream circumstance of birth does play a role in its feasibility. The discrepancy in wages between women and men makes it close to impossible for women to afford any semblance of the dream when wages in general already make the attainability