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Article: Poverty among New York Jews on the rise
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- February 5, 2004
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MELISSA RADLER
Jerusalem Post
02-05-2004
Headline: Poverty among New York Jews on the rise
Byline: MELISSA RADLER
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 05
Thursday, February 5, 2004 -- NEW YORK - Poverty among Jewish New Yorkers is at a historic high, with 20 percent of the city's 1 million Jews classified as poor, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and the UJA- Federation of New York.
The survey, which is based on the UJA-Federation's 2002 Jewish Community Study of New York, also found that Jews living under the Federal Poverty Guideline nearly doubled over the past decade, even as poverty among African-Americans and Hispanics decreased and ...