VENTURA, Calif. — Americans spend almost 50 times as much money on fast food in a year than they do on helping poor children, a survey by the Barna Research Group shows.
The survey results, sponsored by Compassion International, were released Sept. 16. The typical respondent reported that his or her household spends about $240 a year on fast food.
In that same period, a typical household spends only $5 a year on assisting children in poverty. The survey indicated that half of the respondents’ households had not donated anything to causes or organizations helping the poor in the last year.
Six in 10 Americans said they don’t think it’s their job to aid poor children abroad.
The survey results were based on 1,002 telephone interviews of adults older than 18 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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