upward mobility
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If the cultural mood continues tilting toward frugality and retreat, companies that built strategies on steady upward mobility may need to revise expectations.
From MarketWatch
If the cultural mood continues tilting toward frugality and retreat, companies that built strategies on steady upward mobility may need to revise expectations.
From MarketWatch
Mrs. Lovett’s upward mobility can be traced, as if on a graph, in the lines of Emilio Sosa’s costumes.
From New York Times
“There’s no denying that former president Trump has an organization that’s ready to go and a very high floor with upward mobility,” said Jimmy Centers, a Republican operative based in Iowa who is not aligned with a 2024 candidate.
From Washington Post
The most obvious example is white on Black chattel slavery and land theft and genocide against First Nations where white people as a group benefitted from a particular type of "white freedom" where wealth, income, and other intergenerational upward mobility was literally built on stolen land and stolen labor.
From Salon
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