downward mobility

Another study found that 49% of older workers and their spouses will experience downward mobility in retirement.

That is important because Black and brown working-class people, like Black and brown folks more generally, reject Trumpism even though they too are experiencing economic precarity and downward mobility — if not more than their white peers.

Opting out is an increasingly popular way for younger workers to cope with a time of downward mobility, said Beverly Yuen Thompson, a sociology professor at Siena College in Albany, New York.

Elite education developed his mastery of words while downward mobility cultivated his empathy for working people — and his rage against men of fortunes, privileges and luck.

One of the stories I tell that hasn't heretofore been told is that elite colleges are a massive insurance policy against downward mobility.