Dream, and if you think it is still achievable today. What is the study of the American Dream . Democrats can call in at 202 7488000. 202 7488001 republicans,. Independents 202 7458002 202 7458002,. You can also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj twitter,. Facebook, facebook. Com cspan. We are talking about the American Dream this morning. One traditional definition of the possibility of starting out poor in this country, working hard, and in the upper rich. If that is your definition of the American Dream, americans are less confident in decades. Only 60 believe in that definition of the messaging. You can see the poll numbers there. We are asking this morning for our viewers on the washington journal to call in and give us your concept of the American Dream. Candidates are already talking about it in their stump speeches. Marco rubio talked about it in his campaign lunch earlier this year. Here is what he had to say. Marco rubio here in america, my father became a bartender, m
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power and presence. not just racism but also the persecution of poverty. the one thing that is extremely clear about this administration is they want to correlate folks who need assistance as being lazy, not working, not achieving the american dream and the truth is that even working people are on these assistance programs. the law required people to be in pursuit of a job in order to get access to these poverty programs. we re going to continue this discussion in a moment. before i go to break, i want to leave you with this tweet, paul rodman, he goes a note on the administration s new public charge rule, donald trump s grandfather frederick came to the u.s. at 16 with no high school diploma, almost no money, speaking no english, under this rule he would have certainly been rejected. some democratic hopefuls, seem to be adopting a strategy we have seen from none other than president trump, going