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The American Dream in Pennsylvania has a price tag: $230,464. That’s the cost for a family of four to live “comfortably” in The Keystone State. The tally is based on the “50/30/20 Rule,” which holds that half of a household’s income should be spent on housing and necessities, a third on nonessentials like eating out and entertainment, and the rest on savings and debt. Here’s the problem: the average household income in Pennsylvania is $100,837, which falls short of the American Dream sticker price by more than a factor of two. In fact, only 10% of Pennsylvania households have an...

Every year on February 6th, America gets to celebrate anew the birth of its 40th President, Ronald Reagan, who was born on February 6, 1911. We remember and revere him not just because of his service to our nation, but for how he made us feel when he was President. We were patriotic, proud, and powerful under the Reagan presidency – all traits we seem to currently be lacking – and longing for. Americans love to remember Reagan because they love to recall the feeling they had when he was president - bold and unapologetic on the world stage, he...

SNIP Gary Berman is CEO of Tricon Residential, a Toronto-based company that has quietly become one of the largest owners of single-family homes in the United States. Gary Berman: So today, we own about 30,000 single family rental homes across the U.S., largely in the Sun Belt. And we've got probably about 75,000 people living in our homes. Lesley Stahl: You are a multi-billion dollar company. You're publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Gary Berman: Correct. Lesley Stahl: And the-- Gary Berman: Toronto Stock Exchange. Lesley Stahl: --Toronto Stock Exchange. I even read in one of your own...

Owning your own home in the community you live in is the American Dream. The Biden Administration is waging war on the American dream by working to destroy suburbs across America. It’s happening in my community, and it will happen in yours too. As the Mayor of Englewood Cliffs, NJ, I’ve personally fought to protect land that the state has demanded be converted into state-subsidized apartment buildings in the name of so-called “affordable housing.” I’ve fought this fight for over five years in a heavily Democratic town. The truth is, these politicians who force affordable housing mandates on our communities,...

Just ahead of Independence Day, Marvel Comics featured a new Captain America issue in which the Captain slams the American dream as a false promise. The first issue of the new series, “The United States of Captain America,” by writer Christopher Cantwell, was published on June 30, only four days before the country traditionally celebrates its day of independence from Great Britain. As the issue begins, Steve Rogers — the original Cap — grouses about how America is built on “lies.”

The Sriracha story traces back to the 1930s. In a Thai town called Sri Racha, a housewife named Thanom Chakkapak created a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. Variations of this recipe have travelled across the globes in the decades since. 2/ One variation was created by David Tran, a major in the South Vietnamese army. In 1978, the Tran family joined 3k+ refugees and fled Communist Vietnam on a Taiwanese boat called the Huey Fong (means "Gathering Prosperity”). The boat inspired the business name Huy Fong Foods. Image 3/ Tran landed in the US and...

Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant Clyde, Ohio 3:31 P.M. EDT  THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody.  Please.  Thank you very much.  It’s a great honor to be here.  And thank you, Dan.  I’m thrilled to be in the great state of Ohio.  You were very good to me, but I’ve been very good to you.  (Applause.)  I’ve been very good to you.  We’ve been good to each other.  With the incredible men and women of Whirlpool, the largest washing machine factory anywhere in the world.Every day, 20,000 gleaming new machines coming rolling off that beautiful assembly line — I just got to...

A self-described Korean-American Trump supporter outside of President Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, told Breitbart News on Friday that she knows about communism first hand — her parents escaped from North Korea — and added that she is the “American dream come true.” Sosoo, a self-described Catholic Christian who grew up in South Korea, said she came to the country 30 years ago and knows about communism because her parents escaped from North Korea. “I love this country, and I’m a citizen. Legal citizen, [I] work so hard,” she said, declaring that she is the “proven American dream come...

It’s time to leave the Impeachment Circus to play out on its own. Let’s stay focused on why the Republican Party needs to win in November.According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, recent evidence suggests that the income inequality between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year grew to its highest level in more than 50 years. Contrary to what Democrats would have you believe, that is great news! People who are finding better jobs, being promoted into more responsible positions, and earning more profit in an expanding economy are leaving behind the people who settle for...

This is a 3 min. video of Simon Cowell (Americas' Got Talent) discussing what America means to him and the appreciation he has for this country. "The American Dream is still alive and kicking. I appreciate the opportunities this country has given to me. I'm very thankful. America does literally feel like it's my home now."

When tennis phenom Cori “Coco” Gauff was 10, her best friend asked her in a video what she dreamed about the night before.  “I dreamed that me and my parents drove a golf cart to the moon,” she said, shrugging her shoulders as if to have no clue what the dream meant.You can never be sure, but Cori’s dream seemed to foreshadow the make-believe stuff of her real-life journey.  Knowing nothing about tennis, her parents quit their jobs to launch her career when she was 6.   They became a “no-income family,” as they put it, which made it impossible...

“Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” That’s from President Donald Trump’s last State of the Union address. I’m sure many people found it as encouraging as I did, especially in light of surveys indicating that socialism is gaining popularity here in the United States. And not just at the fringes. One recent Gallup poll showed 4 out of 10 Americans have a favorable impression of socialism. Almost half—47%—said they would vote for a socialist candidate for president. But don’t despair just yet. The same poll also revealed that almost 2 out of every...

How do you explain America in simple terms: to a teenager, to a person whose English ability is limited, or to people who are work with their hands not by manipulate words? Toward the end of Dinesh D'Souza's wonderful 16-minute speech to the Candace Owens' Blexit patriots in March 2019, he gives a beautiful and memorable parable on what the American Dream is about. Actually as part of the penance for my sins against the Obama administration, I was sentenced to teach English to immigrants.  And one time a woman in my class said, "Dinesh, since you're into politics and...

Those who fan the flames of divisiveness and disunity within this nation, do not rest on the foundation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy In the wake of the day designated to honor the contributions of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., intelligent Americans can wonder about the legacy of this incredible man of God. And, the embattled political spheres demonstrated they are not prepared to see the same vision as Dr. King. Even if only the “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial is used as a measuring stick, one can understand the words and intent that...

After fleeing tear gas shot at the U.S. border, Carlos González confessed confusion and second thoughts about the caravan that carried him to doorstep of his dream: life in the United States. [He]... had hopped on the caravan .... figuring it would facilitate his entry.... for five weeks he could hope and dream—especially as the caravan pushed past police barricades and crossed through closed borders in Guatemala and Mexico. But the U.S. border has proved impossible so far for the more than 7,000 migrants... . He said his family was planning to sign up with Mexican officials for voluntary repatriation.....[snip]...

NO.....NBC...it does not takes a village...it takes a pro-active, loving, American, Dad & family, of Korean legal immigrants to birth the "American Dream". I watched this magnificent youngster perform her two "Stove Pipe" runs...just simply awesome. She already had the Gold Medal won, before she performed her last run...but, she uttered these words into her I-Pod, before going down the "Stove Pipe"...."Grannie, this one's for you"!!! POTUS, Trump....this is a family that should be celebrated in the White House in the near future. Congratulations, Young Champion....America loves you and your entire "patriot" American Dream, family!!! NBC...take a hike, deadbeat, low...

Mr. and Mrs. Menotti celebrated Valentine’s Day 70 times Pietro Menotti stood on a ship’s deck among throngs of weary, penniless immigrants like himself. Staring into the haze of a hot summer day, he saw the first of two women who would determine the course of his life. She was the mighty lady with a torch whose message to foreign lands had attracted millions: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”



The stats don't lie. Within minutes of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union speech, CBS News revealed their YouGov poll approval ratings on it. Unsurprisingly, 97% of Republican speech watchers liked it. More surprisingly, 72% of Independents liked it. Staggeringly, 43% of Democrats liked it. Overall, CBS reported that 75% of Americans approved of the speech. For such a seriously divisive and polarising President, who is currently languishing with just 39% personal approval ratings, these were sensationally good results. Interestingly, 8/10 Americans in the poll felt the President was trying to unite the country with his speech and...

In 1973 the median household income was $9,265... Consider that the median sales price of a new home in January, 1973, was only $29,900—3.2 times the median household income. In other words, if the median family saved up every penny earned, and put it towards a new home, it would take just over three years to buy a brand new house. This held relatively steady for the next decade. In 1985, new home prices crept up a little, to 3.7 times the median household income. It was during the 1990s and 2000s that home prices began to skyrocket towards where...

An excerpt from one of former President Barack Obama's previously unpublished law school papers revealed he believed the American dream was to be like Donald Trump, although he called such a goal "unfounded optimism." At age 29, Obama wrote a paper with friend Robert Fischer titled "Race and Rights Rhetoric" in his last year at Harvard Law School. An excerpt of the paper was published in a biography of Obama's early life, titled Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Vice reported Friday. Obama had written that the average American mindset can be summed up in one sentence: "I may...