{"id":15539,"date":"2009-10-15T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today-poll_in_bad_times_folks_find_ways_to_help\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T16:15:08","slug":"usa_today-poll_in_bad_times_folks_find_ways_to_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15539","title":{"rendered":"USA Today&#8211;Poll: In bad times, folks find ways to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the recession deepened, more Americans volunteered their time to churches and other religious charities.<\/p>\n<p>Almost four in 10 Americans say they volunteered at a church or other religious organization in the past 12 months, according to a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2008, three in 10 had volunteered with a religious charity.<\/p>\n<p>The weak economy and rising unemployment did not keep Americans from donating money to their churches or other favorite charities. The national telephone poll of 1,053 adults, conducted Sept. 22-23, found that 53% of Americans gave money to a religious organization and 66% gave to other charities. The poll has a margin of error of +\/-4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20091013\/shpoll13_st.art.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the recession deepened, more Americans volunteered their time to churches and other religious charities. Almost four in 10 Americans say they volunteered at a church or other religious organization in the past 12 months, according to a USA TODAY\/Gallup<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15539\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,108,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-religion-culture","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}