"Increasing Diversity and Declining Generosity"
In the United States Whites are the most likely to formally volunteer in a given year, with a rate of 37.7%.
This is significantly higher than the Hispanic volunteer rate of 25.2% or the Black volunteer rate which sits at 26.2%.
These trends hold true when considering charitable giving. Some 58% of White households in the general population give to charitable causes, while only 33% of Hispanic and 34% of Black households do so.
A 2016 study found that for every 10 point increase in ethnic and religious diversity a community’s charitable giving declines by 15%.
This same study also found that when the share of the White population increases by 10 percentage points charitable giving per adult increases by 106 US dollars.
While a University of Maryland study found that beteen 2000 and 2014 charitable giving in the United States declined by 11.3 percentage points, in line with the near 12 point collapse in the White share of the US population.
The health of civil society is extremey important to policymakers. Supplemental medical care, canned food drives, church counseling services, and all-volunteer response groups take significant pressure off of policymakers at the local and national level.
Without these services being provided by a generous White public the duty will increasingly fall on an overburdened, overstretched, and in some cases largely dissinterested state.
In the United States Whites are the most likely to formally volunteer in a given year, with a rate of 37.7%.
This is significantly higher than the Hispanic volunteer rate of 25.2% or the Black volunteer rate which sits at 26.2%.
These trends hold true when considering charitable giving. Some 58% of White households in the general population give to charitable causes, while only 33% of Hispanic and 34% of Black households do so.
A 2016 study found that for every 10 point increase in ethnic and religious diversity a community’s charitable giving declines by 15%.
This same study also found that when the share of the White population increases by 10 percentage points charitable giving per adult increases by 106 US dollars.
While a University of Maryland study found that beteen 2000 and 2014 charitable giving in the United States declined by 11.3 percentage points, in line with the near 12 point collapse in the White share of the US population.
The health of civil society is extremey important to policymakers. Supplemental medical care, canned food drives, church counseling services, and all-volunteer response groups take significant pressure off of policymakers at the local and national level.
Without these services being provided by a generous White public the duty will increasingly fall on an overburdened, overstretched, and in some cases largely dissinterested state.
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Increasing Diversity and Declining Generosity
Diversity is destroying American civil society