Examples
Popular examples of upward social mobility from America include Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton, who were born into working-class families yet achieved high political office in adult life. Benjamin Franklin came from a modest background but became wealthy. Andrew Carnegie, arrived in the U.S. as a poor immigrant and later became a steel tycoon.
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