This top poem means to me that due to the terrorism we have lost our privacy and trustworthiness. The writing in the bottom about the grandmother in a nursing home mean to me that the persons in the nursing homes are lonely because their family cannot visit them because they are very busy surviving.
In the “What’s Up with the American Dream” article several writers conclude that the American dream has been undermined by a combination of global economic developments and the government policies that have previously widened the gulf between the very rich and the rest of us. Economists remind us that the rich people’s income has been rising and the income for their employees has been the same, which makes less possible