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Generosity

Posted by Cindy

May 22, 2009 11:28 a.m. • 16 comments

This headline caught my eye: “Poor are most generous givers” http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/22/poor-are-most-generous-givers/

The story states:

“In fact, America’s poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show. What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.”

Why is this? Is it the empathy factor, or is it the more “stuff” we have the less we want to share?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.