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...Jewish study found 54% of Jews in that age range had gone to college. By 1985 it is estimated that half of all Jews under 65 will be college graduates. The zeal for education has produced higher earnings. The same study showed that in that year, the median income for Jewish households was $12,630, compared with $10,285 for the rest of the population; 14% of Jewish-American families made $25,000 or more a year, while only 10% were at the $4,000 poverty line or below...
...theory and on paper, New Jersey is one of the most favored states in the nation, ranking fourth in both per capita and median family income. But its tradition of politically powerful counties has tended to emphasize local rule to the detriment of that wielded from the statehouse in Trenton, and New Jersey has paid a high price for its localism. Higher education, public health and mental institutions suffer from inadequate funding. The state bears only 28.7% of the cost of local education, compared with the national average of 43%. Half the public money spent in the state is raised...
...living that has endured with little change for more than four centuries. The Hutterites now number 22,000 and live in agricultural colonies mainly in the Northwestern and North Central U.S. and on the prairies of Canada. They are growing. When last measured in the 1950s, the Hutterites' median family size was an astonishing 10.4 children...
...lettuce workers--because of the gruelling stoop labor and specialized techniques involved--is in the economic elite among agricultural laborers." The article goes on to say that a lettuce worker can earn up to $12,000 in a good year. A more typical average income is the $6800 median family income in the Salinas Valley, the center of the lettuce industry. This is higher than most farmworkers' incomes, but it is still only 62 per cent of the state median...
...argument back and forth about statistics, it is important to keep a few basic facts about the condition of farmworkers in California in sight. Farmworkers earn only about 50 per cent of the median state income; over 20 per cent live below the poverty line (1970 U.S. Census). They suffer lethal accident rates 300 per cent above the national average (National Safety Council). They often have dangerous pesticides sprayed on them while working (U.S. Labor Department, Special Review Staff), and 80 per cent suffer at least one symptom of pesticide poisoning (California state study, reported in Fresno Bee, 9/26/69...