Religion: Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny?

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% of the population as a whole.

Many factors are behind the discrepancies among religions, but one stands out. The relationship between education and income is so strong that you can almost draw a line through the points on this graph.

For more, see Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny? by David Leonhardt, May 11, 2011 at NYTimes.com.