May 30, 2002
Welfare Helps to Depress Giving by the Poor
When the outlaw Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he was said to have replied: "Because that's where the money is." In the world of philanthropy research, we have a bit of the same mentality. We focus on the wealthy because we know that a relatively few well-off people are the source of most charitable giving.
But if we are concerned about civic participation among the poor, we should pay attention to patterns in charitable behavior by those in that group -- and
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