Volunteering Hits Lowest Rate in More Than 10 Years

Volunteering in the U.S. hit a new low last year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. As of September 2013, 25.4 percent of all Americans 16 and older had volunteered with an organization at least once in the prior year, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the lowest rate of volunteering the annual report has found since it was first conducted in 2002, and the latest year-over-year change is statistically significant, according to a BLS economist.