NEW YORK — Charitable giving by Americans fell by 2 percent in 2008 as the recession took root, only the second year-to-year decline in more than a half-century, according to an authoritative annual survey released Wednesday.
Amid financial meltdown, charitable gifts in US fell in 2008
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT
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