{"id":1747075,"date":"2022-11-21T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747075"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:49:18","slug":"report-americans-giving-less-to-charity-as-inflation-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-americans-giving-less-to-charity-as-inflation-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Americans Giving Less to Charity as Inflation Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-americans-giving-less-to-charity-as-inflation-bites%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Americans are thinking twice about making charitable donations as record inflation drives up the cost of living, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/inflation-christmas-shopping-retail-charity-americans-11668804758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Requests for assistance from those in need have skyrocketed from last year. But in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the busiest time for charitable giving, Americans say they&#8217;re less likely to give than they were last year, according to the<em> Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><em>Crowdfunding platform Kiva surveyed 2,000 Americans and found that many planned to give less to charity compared with last year: 44% blamed a lack of funds, 42% said donating was &#8220;for the privileged.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><em>GivingTuesday, a nonprofit, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals said the number of donors nationwide fell steeply in the second quarter, driven by declines in donations of less than $500. Fundraising totals were up 6.2% during that time but didn\u2019t keep pace with the second quarter\u2019s inflation rate of more than 8%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Many Americans are also drastically cutting down what they plan to spend on Christmas presents, the<em> Journal<\/em> reported. Deloitte&#8217;s annual holiday shopping survey found that on average people plan to buy 9 gifts this year compared with 16 last year.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">One family the <em>Journal<\/em> spoke to said they asked their children to settle on one &#8220;really good gift&#8221; because &#8220;we have to eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are thinking twice about making charitable donations as record inflation drives up the cost of living, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Americans Giving Less to Charity as Inflation Bites appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1747078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}