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  2. US airlines did better with mobility devices in 2023: Here's ...

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    Here’s are the rankings: Allegiant Air carried 21,926 mobility devices in 2023, and there were 82 reports of mishandling – a rate of 0.37 per 100. Delta Air Lines and its regional partners ...

  3. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  4. Mobility device lost or damaged by an airline? USA TODAY ...

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    According to the Department of Transportation, airlines "mishandle" on average about 1.5% of the mobility devices they transport. In 2022, airlines carried 741,582 wheelchairs and scooters, and ...

  5. Global Social Mobility Index - Wikipedia

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    The Global Social Mobility Index is an index prepared by the World Economic Forum. The inaugural index from 2020 ranked 82 countries and has not been updated since. The Index measures social mobility holistically through 5 determinants. The findings from the index were then used in the World Economic Forum's Global Social Mobility Report 2020 ...

  6. Age-related mobility disability - Wikipedia

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    The use of a mobility aid device such as a mobility scooter, wheelchair, crutches or a walker can help with community ambulation. Another term that is coined to define mobility disabilities based on performance is "performance based mobility disability". It is the inability to increase your walking speed more than 0.4 m/s.

  7. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. [1] It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society. This movement occurs between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification.

  8. USA Mobility Announces Extension For Reporting Fourth ... - AOL

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    USA Mobility Announces Extension For Reporting Fourth Quarter and 2012 Results SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- USA Mobility, Inc. (NAS: USMO) , a leading provider of wireless messaging, mobile ...

  9. Mobility scooter - Wikipedia

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    A mobility scooter is an electric personal transporter used as mobility aid for people with physical impairment, mostly auxiliary to a powered wheelchair but configured like a motorscooter. When motorized they function as micromobility devices and are commonly referred to as a powered vehicle/scooter, or electric scooter.