Reply To: Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Fighting NY Department of Education

An additional difference is Orthodox Jewish families are much more likely to be a one working parent family (or one full time worker) compared to the outside world where it is much more likely that both parents (or both adults) are working and/or both working full-time. This difference obviously results, on average, in a lower income for one working adult families. Which is another reason such families are more likely to fall into a lower family income bracket, and hence closer to poverty guidelines, even though the lower income in this example has nothing to do with the good or bad education of the one worker family that is “poor” versus the two worker family that it not poor.