Without this deal, it would have been on the bottom rungs of hell.
The bottom rungs of the ladder become very slippery, once slavery is accepted.
Jones's goal was to help build the bottom rungs of the ladder.
Second, family breakdown has devastated economic progress for those on the bottom rungs.
One such argument is that the middle class may be doing well but that the bottom rungs of the society are suffering more than ever.
Yet the bottom rungs of that ladder have largely disappeared since then.
Most of them have come illegally, taking jobs on the bottom rungs of the American labor market.
Most of them were clearly on the bottom rungs of the Empire's economic ladder.
They will shove the current population off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
As a group, young single black mothers have been firmly stuck on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
