This correlation suggests that it is not only the poor who tend to be sick when everyone else is healthy, but that there is a continual gradient, from the top to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, relating status to health.

Hence, landed and landless, alike, are rising up the socio-economic ladder gradually but definitively.

The Champ has been described as an inverted women's film, because men in the film are not generally depicted at the top of the socio-economic ladder but are shown as a primary childcare provider.

The economic crisis has put a substantial crimp in a cornerstone of the American dream - their ability to climb the socio-economic ladder.

You can't get much further apart on the socio-economic ladder than Peter Thiel and Ray Kachel.

Another study of married couples in China noted that men tended to marry down the socio-economic ladder.

But by the time they are met, the poor family has already moved several rungs up the socio-economic ladder and wants a house built with modern materials; not an improved earthen house.

Is this the same "Nickel and Dimed" that turned an empathetic eye and ear to the lives of women on the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder?

But Connecticut is less amenable to those who are still energetically climbing the socio-economic ladder.

But the practice, said Dr. Evans of Hutzel Hospital, has "moved down the socio-economic ladder," with working-class and poor women also seeking its reassurances.