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View synonyms for upwardly mobile
upwardly mobile
adjective
- (of a person or social group) moving or aspiring to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power
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Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, Atlanta has the 49th lowest rate of upwardly mobile children.
From The Daily Beast
The Brookings report makes clear: compared to other countries, the U.S. is not an upwardly mobile society for the poor.
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The less-than-upwardly mobile go into combat while the offspring of the privileged classes go to Yale, Harvard or Columbia.
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“My parents were first-generation immigrants, very upwardly mobile,” she says.
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