February 22, 2007
Volunteering by Americans Hits Four-Year Low
Sixty-one million Americans donated time to charity last year, the lowest number of volunteers in four years, according to new data from the federal government.
The figure represents a drop from the 65.4 million people who said they volunteered in 2005, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 4.4 million more than in 2006. Last year's number of volunteers was the lowest since 2002, when the federal government first began collecting such data.
The White House
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