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Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny?
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The economic differences among the country’s various religions are strikingly large, much larger than the differences among states and even larger than those among racial groups.
The most affluent of the major religions — including secularism — is Reform Judaism. Sixty-seven percent of Reform Jewish households made more than $75,000 a year at the time the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life collected the data, compared with only 31 percent of the population as a whole. Hindus were second, at 65 percent, and Conservative Jews were third, at 57 percent.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/is-your-religion-your-financial-destiny.html?_r=1
