Posts Tagged ‘American Dream’

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UC Berkeley’s News21 fellows took a comprehensive look at the foundations of “The American Dream” ahead of the 2008 presidential election. As the Design Editor for the project I refined the design and coding and populated the site with content from all the Berkeley fellows.

Click on the image below to view the project.

This is the story of one middle class guy in Newark, Ohio trying to climb back up after the bottom falls out.

Dustin Lange worked his way up the ranks of at a property management company in Newark, Ohio without a college degree. His income as a vice president at the company put him in the top quartile for earnings nationally.

But when he got laid off at age 34, he was left in the lurch. Lange found his high school diploma was no longer enough to get an equivalent job in the real estate industry. And throughout the economy, the jobs promising a middle income wage and a employment growth now require at least some post-secondary education.

So Lange has had to retool and recalibrate his lifestyle. He moved out of his big house in a well-groomed development on the other side of town and he’s gone back to school to become a nurse.

View the interactive feature about Dustin Lange and job market trends.

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This is the story of one guy in Newark, Ohio trying to climb back up after the bottom falls out and the challenges many middle class workers face in a shifting economy.

Click on the image to view the interactive feature.

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Pundits have been throwing the term “evangelical” around a lot as they talk about the race to the White House. But what do evangelicals think it means to be an evangelical voter? To find out Amy Jeffries and Adi Sambamurthy visited one evangelical church in Sacramento, Calif. and conducted a straw poll of the parishioners ahead of Super Tuesday.