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Is the pandemic making people more generous — or more selfish?

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The data on how people are giving in 2020 may surprise you.

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day that encourages everyone to refocus on doing good after the annual post-Thanksgiving shopping blitz. People have donated millions to charity through Giving Tuesday fundraisers every year since the movement kicked off in 2012. But what does generosity look like in 2020?

Has the Covid-19 pandemic — and its attendant recession — made us more or less generous this year? Has it changed the way we give?

We won’t fully know until 2020 is behind us because around 30 percent of total annual giving happens in December, with many people making their tax-deductible donations on the very last days of the year. But we’ve already got some telling data about how much people are giving.

“As far as we can tell, the overall