downwardly mobile

You can spot the downwardly mobile in any city street.

This is not a pleasant thought, and I am trying hard to avoid being one of the downwardly mobile.

The downwardly mobile in Belgrade do not mind being quoted by name.

The evidence, she said, shows clearly that being fat makes people "downwardly mobile," because of obstacles they face to education, work and marriage.

Right: stalagmites are one of the many treats in store for the downwardly mobile.

"If a significant portion of recent immigrants are downwardly mobile, then that is bad news for the boomers.

Psychologically speaking, they're nothing if not downwardly mobile.

He could be upwardly or downwardly mobile, but he could never stand still.

"I'm downwardly mobile," he explained with a laugh.

Could the health gap exist because unhealthy people are downwardly mobile or because healthy women marry up?

Economically speaking, Mr. Gore may actually be downwardly mobile.

Mother Jones: Trying Times newsletter: News of the downwardly mobile.

Overnight, her family was downwardly mobile.

There, she played Madame Spritzer, a downwardly mobile countess.

Downwardly Mobile Sociologists and economists say soaring real estate prices mean it simply costs more for a middle-class family to stay in the middle.

As for the economy, as a Pittsburgher, I've been writing about the downwardly mobile middle class forever.

Downwardly Mobile (1994)

His narrators - young, urban, downwardly mobile - are as likely to eat spaghetti as soba noodles.

Is Rolls Downwardly Mobile?

These days, it was often the last pretension that the downwardly mobile would relinquish--and they did not give it up easily.

The forces of political correctness blame society's woes on blue-collar ethnics, who are seen as racists, uneducated and downwardly mobile.

The trouble with this theory of "status discontent" - of conservative Christians as downwardly mobile rubes - was that most of them were neither.

But they wrote only one song together: "I'm Hip," a wicked roasting of a downwardly mobile jazz snob who has no idea how square he really is.

It helps the upwardly mobile save to buy homes, and it keeps the downwardly mobile out of foster care and shelters.

In short stories about the downwardly mobile, Barbara Kingsolver writes about life in trailer parks and shopping malls.