downward mobility

noun

1. sociol the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a lower status Compare upward mobility See also horizontal mobility vertical mobility

Example Sentences

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.

From Salon

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From Washington Post

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

From Salon

Ehrenreich departs as a sort of prophet redeemed: Her incisive work on the grinding poverty of wage laborers and the downward mobility of white-collar workers has taken on the cast of common knowledge, at least on the political left.

From Los Angeles Times