35 percent since 1981. Reason: The Reagan tax cuts. They have raised the cost of donations reducing the amount of income that gifts can offset.
Charities are most perplexed by the stinginess of the big baby-boom generation. Yankelovich, et al. found that those aged 30 to 35 gave only
1.7 percent of their incomes, versus 2.6 percent for the 35-49 group and three percent for 50- to 64-year-olds. The acquisitive boomers may be financially strapped. But Edrnondson sides with Yankelovich partner Ar-thur...
publisher Henry Luce and educator Robert M. Hutchins, warned that editors do not -16enjoy the privilege" of being "deaf to ideas," and emphasized faimess. Today's Op Ed pages reflect that concern.
The 18th-century French writer, Voltaire, reportedly said: "I disap- prove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Greeley too took that view-but, of course, considered others.
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