ק Top 400 Earners: 7% of Donations. That's what Professor Bainbridge reports, via some article he quotes thusly:

The top 400 American earners in 2000 provided nearly 7 percent of all the charitable gifts reported on income tax returns for that year, well in excess of their roughly 1 percent share of overall income, according to data released yesterday by the NewTithing Group, a charity that tracks giving.

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