Charitable giving, part 2
Top 5 US charitable causes in 2005 1. Religious/Faith-based $88.3bn2. Education $33.8 bn3. Health $22 bn4 Human services $19.2 bn5. Arts, culture and humanities $14 bn (Sources: Center …
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The kindness of the super-rich
"The super-rich when alive give away a smaller proportion of their income than the rest of us. And when it comes to die, they leave their money mostly to their children." (Fortune Magazine). About 9% goes to charitable causes. Pets get about 2%. The estate of Helen Walton, $16 billion worth of it, has gone …
Disappearing government
About 60 % of the Government’s 1.8 million civil service employees will be eligible to retire over the next 9 years, and the Office of Personnel Management expects 40% to do so. Generation Y (whatever that is) is regarded as impatient, willing to take risks, intolerant of ‘inefficient’ organizations and does not like the idea …
We’ve been here before!
V. S Naipaul in An Area of Darkness, talks about the English fantasy of Englishness in the 19th Century, “The cherished conviction,” as one Englishman wrote in 1883, “which is shared by every Englishman in India, from the highest to lowest, by the planter’s assistant in his lowly bungalow…to the Viceroy on his throne…that he …
Enslavement by Blackberry
A survey in July found that 6 in every 10 Americans with a portable email device, such as a Blackberry, check messages in bed , while 37% confess to sending emails while driving. Furthermore 4 in 10 keep their Blackberries close by while asleep, so they can feel the vibration or see the red light …