Our ideas about the “American Dream” froze in the 1950s. Today, it doesn’t occur to anybody that it could mean anything else. How did wealth go from being seen as a threat to the “American ...

are among the many factors making the American Dream increasingly out of reach for the middle class. GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s.

Containment took the form of war at the beginning of the decade when, in July 1950, American troops were ... Mainstream media and advertising agencies sought to keep America within neat ...