Many Charities Give to Others this Holiday Season
- Here's Life Inner City, the urban ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, International, is sending out some 18,550 food-filled boxes through local churches and organizations to bring holiday cheer to the hungry.
- The packaged "Boxes of Love" are enough to feed more than 111,300 people in the United States
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Date: 11/23/2006
Report shows that giving is up in the US and the UK
- A new report found that Americans donate a greater share of the country's economic output to charity than do the people of 11 other countries.
- The Charities Aid Foundation in the United Kingdom revealed that giving in the United States equals 1.67 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
- Donations to religious organizations accounted for about 60 percent of the difference between the United States and the United Kingdom
- which was at 0.73 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
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Date: 11/22/2006
Survey shows that Out of Wedlock Births are Up in the United States
- Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year
- About 4.1 million babies were born in the United States last year, up slightly from 2004.
- More than 1.5 million of those were to unmarried women; that is about 37 percent of the total.
- In 2004, about 36 percent of births were out of wedlock.
- The number of unmarried-couple households with children has been climbing, hitting more than 1.7 million last year, up from under 200,000 in 1970.
- The birth rate among teenagers declined 2 percent in 2005, continuing a trend from the early 1990s.
- The rate is now about 40 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19.
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Date: 11/21/2006
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