At the risk of being simplistic: Income must match expenses for the math to work
Alexandra Fleksher’s recent Perspectives column titled “Fuzzy Math” highlights a longstanding yet intensifying issue in our community. Large families, large mortgages in large cities, large simchahs, and of course tuition, taken together, are putting the frum lifestyle increasingly out of reach. The question she appropriately ends with is, “What changes and improvements can be made to our communal infrastructure?”
At the risk of being simplistic: Income must match expenses for the math to work. Thus, the solution to the frum family’s financial dilemma must involve either increasing income or reducing expenses. What that specifically entails is the key question.