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Weatherhead’s Jonathan Ernest talks about charitable giving during economic slumps

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WEWSJonathan Ernest, assistant professor of economics at Weatherhead School of Management, discussed the levels of charitable giving during economic slumps. “Generally what we see is when we have sort of a slowdown in the economy, we see reasonable levels of charitable giving, but they do tend to drop off as the economy slows down,” he said.