“This is a big idea and it’s an expensive idea,” said Chris Hughes, a co-chair of the Economic Security Project, “but I do think that it is in line with the scale of the problem, which is also immense.” Chris Hughes was raised by Lutheran parents in Hickory, N. C., and they taught him, by example, to tithe. Every year, they gave 10 percent of their income to the church and other local charities, and Mr. Hughes carried that tradition into adulthood. But in 2008, when he sold $1 million of his Facebook shares on private markets, and the […]
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