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Yes, thank you saying this! I came from a area that has 1/3 of the town in the boat and many surrounding communities are dying off because of this. Idiots that are still pissed there is no factory work and hand outs for them.  Give them free education to get new skills.. They reject this because they are some how entitled to sit on their ass until 'God' spoon feeds them whatever they think they should have.  Of course now the drug crisis is to blame again not them... Always someone else's fault.

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As a formerly Orthodox Jew, I can tell you that we have this in our community.  There are lots of people who believe that it's their job to study Torah all day, and they end up on public assistance with zero marketable skills, very weak English (although strong knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish) and tons of kids that they are raising in the same tradition.  This has been a huge problem in Israel for a while, and it's now increasingly recognized as an issue in places like New York and New Haven.  The two  towns in New York state with the highest percentage of ultra Orthodox members are the poorest in the state, and in those communities more than 50% of people are on some form of public assistance.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-haredi-poverty-the-same-threat-in-both-new-york-and-israel-1.6724049

It's possible that this isolation from the larger society is partly due to centuries of anti-Semitism.  A lot of the culture of the Haredi community dates back to Russia and Poland at a time when Jews were barred from most professions, not allowed to own land and not considered citizens of the countries they were born in, and then of course the whole reason that many of these families are in the US is the holocaust.

It's almost like a history of centuries of horrific oppression has a long lasting impact on cultures and contributes to some trends in the community that aren't adaptive to succeeding in the larger society.  Who could have imagined?  Doubtless PP will chime in to explain again why we should ignore cultural context because of some factoid that's happening now.

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