{"id":1349,"date":"2026-06-15T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:37:23","slug":"mrs-dow-jones-the-american-dream-is-very-dead-for-millennials-and-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Dow Jones: The American dream is ‘very dead’ for millennials and Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For decades, the American dream seemed simple: Get a job, build a family, and work for a few decades before retiring at 65.<\/p>\n

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Haley Sacks \u2014 also known as Mrs. Dow Jones \u2014 says that sort of life path is now a bygone era. During an interview with Business Insider, Sacks said the biggest financial overlap between millennials and Gen Z is that they “inherited a system that is broken.”<\/p>\n

“The rules for building wealth are made for an America that doesn’t exist anymore, because the American dream is very dead,” Sacks, a financial influencer and CEO of Finance is Cool, told Business Insider. “We aren’t going to stay at our jobs for 30 or 40 years. It’s not this easy path of maxing out your 401(k), buying a house, then you get to retire.”<\/p>\n

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