{"id":9518,"date":"2009-06-05T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:09:27","slug":"absolute-versus-relative-charitable-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/05\/absolute-versus-relative-charitable-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Versus Relative Charitable Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below reveals the percent of before-tax income given to charity by class (separated into fifths):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9519\" title=\"giving\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/giving.gif\" alt=\"giving\" width=\"575\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/giving.gif 908w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/giving-300x205.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a positive correlation between income and absolute giving (the higher their income, the more money they donate), but a negative correlation between income and relative giving (as incomes go down, households donate a higher and higher percentage of their income).<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/income-and-charitable-giving.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Uggen&#8217;s weblog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/foundationcenter.org\/pnd\/news\/story.jhtml?id=253300040\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below reveals the percent of before-tax income given to charity by class (separated into fifths): There is a positive correlation between income and absolute giving (the higher their income, the more money they donate), but a negative correlation between income and relative giving (as incomes go down, households donate a higher and higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,274],"class_list":["post-9518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52104,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions\/52104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}