Harvard study: how poor people stay poor – and how to fix it

Harvard study: how poor people stay poor – and how to fix it

It’s who you know – that is the old chestnut on how to be successful in life, but it turns out it’s also where you grow that determines economic mobility. A massive study examining 70 million Facebook users’ 21 billion relationships showed that a poor person’s ticket to upward mobility is to know rich people.