Meanings of downward social mobility in English

Income data misses a lot; those with healthy earnings might also have negative wealth or downward mobility.

When Deena had first confessed her dismay at his downward mobility, he said she was being inflexible and lacked compassion.

Children are now not likely to do as well as their parents did as downward mobility takes hold for the first time in generations.

But in the United States, a larger-than-average proportion had less education (so-called downward mobility) while a smaller-than-average population had more education (upward mobility).

No one votes for downward mobility, for their children to be worse off than them, for all the motors of change to stall, do they?