In universities and colleges, poor as are more likely to be surrounded by predominantly wealthy peers. Cross class friendships form at a rate lower than you would expect in religious settings. There's definitely more to social capital than economic connectedness. But when the researchers looked at the correlation between sacivic engagement and life outcomes they didn't really find a significant correlation.
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