upwardly mobile

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Like some of its peers in the digital-media industry, including BuzzFeed and Vox Media, Vice and its investors bet big on the rising power of social media networks like Facebook and Instagram, anticipating they would deliver a tide of young, upwardly mobile readers that advertisers craved.

From New York Times

Clearly, says Svorenčík, economics is “one of the least upwardly mobile” academic fields: Compared with political science or sociology programs, an economist’s doctoral program is more likely to determine their career path.

From Slate

Before America graduated to telling upwardly mobile White women that, if they decline to reproduce, they are avatars of late-modern decadence, it was forcibly sterilizing Black women in the Jim Crow south.

From Washington Post

Gates, the scholar, called him “a link and a remnant of the fiery commitment of the old radical left,” adding that Mr. Belafonte “sees himself as a lone voice” championing causes left behind by the Black upwardly mobile establishment.

From Washington Post

The co-founder of Speedify AI and start-up adviser to Spero Studios, she advertised spots in “an AGI House for women,” opening next month in Hayes Valley, an upwardly mobile neighborhood in downtown San Francisco.

From Washington Post