From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Rosie Wright.

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in August of 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, a man entered the history books.

I say to you today, my friend, steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, a man entered the history books.

I say to you today, my friend, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,

I still have a dream.

In front of more than 200,000 people, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King stood up and laid out his vision for equality in America.

In doing so, he drew upon an idea as old as America itself. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out

the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created

equal. The American dream, the shared belief that all things are fair, things are equal,

and if you work hard and play by the rules, you can improve life for yourself and for your family.

But as the United States marks its 250th anniversary, with economic uncertainty, political turbulence,

and social division on the rise, do ordinary Americans still believe?

The American dream is really where someone can go to work, have a good life, build a good

future for them and their family.

And, you know, does it still exist?

The Times and YouGov spoke to nearly 2,000 Americans to find out and ask,

if the dream is on life support, what comes next?

Yeah. next. The story today is the American dream dying. I'm David Charter and I'm an assistant editor of the Times based in Washington, D.C.

I'm Tom Calver, the data editor of the Times and the Sunday Times based in London.

We're going to talk about the American dream, a phrase I think we're really familiar with.

But David, can you explain sort of the origin of the American dream?

What is it? Where did it come from?

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