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People in philanthropy expect charitable contributions to drop this year.

If it does, it will be the first time in the past 50 years that individual giving will fall in two consecutive years.

But New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein spoke with several people who are bucking the trend.

The state now pays up to 60 percent of school construction costs. Governor Lynch says the law needs an overhaul, and some legislators want the program suspended for 2010. School officials say the move would jeopardize long-planned projects.

This week, as part of our series on the economy, Working It Out, we’re asking the question, has this recession changed us. The Carsey Institute at the University New Hampshire just released a study that examines a particular slice of that question. It looks at the impact of the recession on civic life. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg has more.

This weekend, ten teenagers from Bow High School will head to Copenhagen to discuss climate change.

They’ll be attending the Zealand Consensus, a Danish government-sponsored climate conference for high school students from around the world.

As New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports, the students have been studying the issues for six months and hope they can make their voices heard at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

This week in our Working It Out series, we’re asking the question, Have we changed? Did the deepest recession in decades bring us to some new understanding or when it ends, will we be back where we started?

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard gives us some insights through its National Leadership Index. The annual survey looks at popular trust in various institutions from Wall Street to religious organizations. This year, American’s overall confidence in their leaders went up a little bit. But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg reports, the picture is more complicated than that.