Sentences with phrase «american upward mobility»

After millions of distressed homes flooded the market across the country, some large institutional investors, like Blackstone, began buying and transforming single - family homes — a symbol of American upward mobility — into rental properties.

Born in the city in 1927, he belongs to a remarkably self - creative generation, which has included such singular individuals as Frank O'Hara and Edwin Denby, whose urbane voices and visions became inextricably identified with the realigning echelons of post-war American upward mobility.

Not exact matches

Not about the notion of unhindered upward mobility itself — even the most optimistic have long since acknowledged that particular American Dream is more myth than reality.

In order to rank the best places for living the American Dream, we looked at data on five metrics — homeownership rate, diversity rate, upward mobility rate, median home value and unemployment rate.

«In the competitive world of American ethnic communities, there are two paths to success: upward mobility defined according to wealth, education, and political power, and downward mobility measured by degrees of victimhood.»

In the book, she writes about her journey away from the upward mobility trend of modern American, and down into the grime of life where, as it turns out, life is beautiful and full of wonder, glory, and grace.

It stresses persistence, hard work and the American Dream of upward mobility.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards...

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

«I realized the connection and how important this could be in creating real upward mobility in people's lives by just removing barriers, and certainly I had enough of a treasure trove of barriers that were put before me as an African American woman and certainly African - American women that came before me,» she said.

«As an African - American I'm a big believer in upward mobility and that the government has a big role, a proactive role in advancing that upward mobility,» said Peebles.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and the University of Wisconsin found that belief in the so - called «American Dream,» or the prospect that upward economic mobility is possible, limits impulse spending among materialistic consumers.

«Once we consider how important schools are to American ideas about economic opportunity and upward mobility, we can better understand why school settings are revealed in our research as focal points of violent responses to increased unemployment,» said Hagan, who also is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

A defining feature of the «American Dream» is upward income mobility: the ideal that children have a higher standard of living

After hitting us with the raw facts of the crime, as well as a phone call in which he attempts to connect with the original prosecutor and is stone - walled by her cold refusal to talk, Ford goes back into his family's history to unveil a story of racism and optimism, of what hope and hardship and upward mobility meant to a working - class African - American family in the middle of the century.

«I, Tonya» is a meditation on upward mobility and the elusiveness of achieving the American dream, showing that systems are in check to prevent a true meritocracy, be they patriarchal or classist in nature.

«For generations of Americans, education was the springboard to upward mobility,» writes Murnane and Duncan.

The American Enterprise Institute's Andrew P. Kelly made a similar point in a paper last year for Fordham's «Education for Upward Mobility» conference.

There's truth in the lament, voiced from both left and right, that American society is separating into haves and have - nots; the prospects of upward mobility are dimming both for the poorest and for those in what we've traditionally called the «working class.»

For starters, letting go of a misplaced nostalgia for the «good old days» of the «traditional» school, as well as the belief that American schools have always been engines of upward mobility.

Only then will we be able to accelerate our nation's economic progress, increase upward mobility, and reduce social inequality for all Americans.

The phrase would be picked up almost 70 years later when American cigarette brands tried to engineer the same gender revolution in emerging markets in Asia and Africa, presenting cigarettes as symbols of freedom, upward mobility, and gender equality.

Shown here, Flying Geese points to the visual legacy of African American migration and movement as well as the early 20th c. African American leaders who promoted civil rights and upward mobility.

Featuring profiles and news stories on important African Americans, the publication also covered the civil rights movement and served as a beacon of upward mobility and inspiration for its readers.