Are The Poor More Charitable Than The Rich?

[aaronleland]

US poor and middle class give more to charity but wealthy pull back - CSMonitor.com

Poorer and middle-class Americans are more likely to donate than are the wealthiest people in the country, according to a report released Monday by The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Americans give an average of about 3 percent of their income to charity, according to the study. But in recent years, Americans in different income brackets have diverged on the giving scale. Between 2006 and 2012, Americans earning $200,000 or more decreased the amount they gave to charity by 4.6 percent. In that same period, Americans earning less than $100,000 increased the amount they gave by 4.5 percent. And that increase was despite the fact that middle- and lower-income Americans were earning less than they did six years earlier, the report notes.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Poorer people are, the more likely they're religious. More religious, more likely to be charitible.

 

[dannyboys]

What a stupid thread.
Ya that's right "poor" people making "less than $100K a year"?
Show us anyone who is "poor" making $95K a year.
"Poor" people don't pay a fucking dime in Income tax.
"Poor" people receive every penny they get from the 'Makers'.

 

[aaronleland]

What a stupid thread.
Ya that's right "poor" people making "less than $100K a year"?
Show us anyone who is "poor" making $95K a year.
"Poor" people don't pay a fucking dime in Income tax.
"Poor" people receive every penny they get from the 'Makers'.

If you are making taxable income you pay an income tax. It doesn't matter if you make $95k or $20k.

The article also says poor and middle class. Either way it has nothing to do with whether or not the poor give more to charity.

Idiot.

 

[dannyboys]

There is no such thing as a "poor" person "earning" $95K a year.
The clowns who did the survey were stupid to use the words "poor" and middle class in reference to anyone "earning lees than 100K a year.
How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty - U.S Census Bureau
Fucking learn something.

 

[Asclepias]

Poor people typically donate in time whereas wealthy people donate money.

 

[aaronleland]

There is no such thing as a "poor" person "earning" $95K a year.
The clowns who did the survey were stupid to use the words "poor" and middle class in reference to anyone "earning lees than 100K a year.
How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty - U.S Census Bureau
Fucking learn something.

Again, it said poor and middle class. It never identified the ones making $100k a year as poor.

I know you have better reading comprehension than that. You are just being willfully ignorant.

 

[dannyboys]

What I can comprehend is the people making the study 'lumped' the "poor" and the "middle class" together to prove the point they wanted to make people believe.
Poor biased science.
It's like the ***** who 'forgot' to separate the Black crime rate involving handguns into a study of why handguns are so bad "for the average American". When 95% of murders committed involving a handgun are committed by Blacks who make up 13% of the population. The "average American" does not live in an inner city sewer populated by 'young Black' Tree Dwellers.

 

[hipeter924]

There is no such thing as a "poor" person "earning" $95K a year.
The clowns who did the survey were stupid to use the words "poor" and middle class in reference to anyone "earning lees than 100K a year.
How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty - U.S Census Bureau
Fucking learn something.

Those earning 95k a year can be slaves to their student loan debt though, a demographic that is growing as education costs increase across the board. It isn't far fetched for someone to get lumped with a $200,000 student loan just to get a job that pays $100,000 a year.

 

[Asclepias]

What I can comprehend is the people making the study 'lumped' the "poor" and the "middle class" together to prove the point they wanted to make people believe.
Poor biased science.
It's like the ***** who 'forgot' to separate the Black crime rate involving handguns into a study of why handguns are so bad "for the average American". When 95% of murders committed involving a handgun are committed by Blacks who make up 13% of the population. The "average American" does not live in an inner city sewer populated by 'young Black' Tree Dwellers.

If you make 200K a year and your expenses are 201K a year are you poor or wealthy speaking in monetary terms?