{"id":291,"date":"2012-08-28T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-08-28T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:37:08","slug":"rich-ghettos-deplete-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/2012\/08\/28\/rich-ghettos-deplete-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich ghettos deplete generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/article\/America-s-Generosity-Divide\/133775\/?cid=pt&amp;utm_source=pt&amp;utm_medium=en\">Fascinating new research<\/a> from the US finds that living in rich-only enclaves rather than in mixed income communities is related to lower levels of philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by specialist US newspaper The Chronicle of Philanthropy (how I wish we had a UK equivalent!), which cross-checked giving patterns with zip codes (postcodes). The article about the study is <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/article\/America-s-Generosity-Divide\/133775\/?cid=pt&amp;utm_source=pt&amp;utm_medium=en\">here<\/a>, and this is the finding that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><em>Rich people who live in neighborhoods with many other wealthy people\u00a0give a smaller share of their incomes\u00a0to charity than rich people who live in more economically diverse communities. When people making more than $200,000 a year account for more than 40 percent of the taxpayers in a ZIP code, the wealthy residents give an average of 2.8 percent of discretionary income to charity, compared with an average of 4.2 percent for all itemizers earning $200,000 or more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It looks like gated communities don&#8217;t just keep out the riff raff &#8211; they close the gates on generosity too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating new research from the US finds that living in rich-only enclaves rather than in mixed income communities is related to lower levels of philanthropy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/2012\/08\/28\/rich-ghettos-deplete-generosity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}