ujm – you don’t make a whole lot of sense. I looked at public data. If there is cash income not included in that but reported to the IRS… Yeah ok. I don’t have time for such mental gymnastics.
And nothing you said changes the evidence of high reliance on welfare by communities that also teach very little secular education. How will you show self-sufficiency when welfare reliance is high? Comparing to minority groups in public schools, even if those groups are worse, maybe sounds good as a talking point, but I don’t think gets you around this issue that the State has a vested interest anytime you can’t clearly show self-sufficiency. The Amish met a very difficult standard here that I don’t think various communities affected by these new laws can come close to meeting.