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June 19, 2019

Charitable giving by individuals drops in 2018

By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer

NEW YORK — Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans' giving patterns.

The Giving USA report, released Tuesday, said individual giving fell by 1.1%, from $295 billion in 2017 to $292 billion last year. It ended a four-year streak of increases, and was the largest decline since a 6.1% drop in 2009.


 
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