The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families | Opinion

The "American dream" is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago.

Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths of despair” at alarming rates, rates of happiness hitting record lows and way too many men and women stuck in poverty across generations, it’s probably no surprise that a growing share of Americans say the Dream is out of reach.

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