New York: Russian Jewish Seniors Face Unprecedented Rates of Poverty

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Russian-Jewish Seniors Suffer High Poverty Rates

by Justin Santoro on Jul 19th, 2012

Jewish seniors from the former Soviet Union have a startlingly high poverty rate of 71 percent, according to the UJA-Federation’s “Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011,” and Orthodox Jews aren’t far behind, with a poverty rate of 42 percent.

The survey shows that 361,000 Jews in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, are presently experiencing a life of poverty. This represents a 15 percent increase in the amount of impoverished Jews in those areas since 2002. [Read more]

 

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Comments

[Mark Chulsky]

These numbers probably include some of our compatriots who come for their free lunches in BMWs. I am far from saying there are no poor Jews, but the social service bureaucracies routinely pad the poverty statistics.