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Charity and Confidence in Government

Kevin Schmiesing


Posted by Kevin Schmiesing
on Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Interesting survey finding highlighted on the Heritage Foundation’s web site:

Compared with peers who expressed a great deal of confidence in the federal government, those who reported having “hardly any confidence” in the federal government were 20 percentage points more likely to volunteer for a charity.

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