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Rise in Giving Tracks Growth in Americans' Income, IRS Data Show
By HARVY LIPMANThe $10-billion rise in charitable giving from 1997 to 1998 reflects the growing incomes of Americans who itemized their tax returns rather than any increase in their generosity, a Chronicle analysis of new Internal Revenue Service data shows.
On average, those taxpayers continued to give a little more than 3 percent of their earnings...