America the charitable: a few surprises

Everybody knows Americans are big givers. But their charitable impulses keep generating surprises.

• Charitable giving plays an even larger role in the economy than is suggested by some $260 billion in annual contributions. Each dollar of giving appears to create $19 of extra national income, according to a book released this past weekend.

By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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