upwardly mobile

Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, Atlanta has the 49th lowest rate of upwardly mobile children.

The Brookings report makes clear: compared to other countries, the U.S. is not an upwardly mobile society for the poor.

The less-than-upwardly mobile go into combat while the offspring of the privileged classes go to Yale, Harvard or Columbia.

“My parents were first-generation immigrants, very upwardly mobile,” she says.