Definition of upward mobility
: the capacity or facility for rising to a higher social or economic position
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The greatest part about America is there's upward mobility and grit, and that's rewarded.
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While opportunity and upward mobility exist in some areas, in other places the chances for moving ahead are virtually zero.
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Fewer than 5 percent of black children grow up in the kind of neighborhoods that most foster upward mobility — low-poverty neighborhoods where most fathers are present.
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Research shows that women, especially women of color, have more opportunities for upward mobility when a union represents us.
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There’s something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into.
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That discrepancy leads to less community involvement, feelings of estrangement, and limited upward mobility.
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Asian immigrants have much higher levels of upward mobility than other groups, but Asian children whose parents were born in the U.S. had rates similar to white people.
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As for what accounts for the disparities in upward mobility, the researchers do not have a clear answer.
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First Known Use of upward mobility
1949
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