>...The United States is often considered the most generous country in the world. Why? Because Americans donate a lot of money. Its people, its foundations and its companies donated roughly $410 billion in 2017 -- or about 2.1% of its own GDP. In fact, the amount Americans donated was more than the entire GDP of all but about 40 countries in the world.
>You could argue that Americans can simply afford to be more generous. And that if people in other countries could give more, they would.
>But what if instead of looking at how much people give, we looked at how many people in a country are giving? And what if we looked at more than money -- and also counted people who volunteer their time and help strangers?
>Gallup does just that -- every year -- in more than 140 countries.
>In our latest survey, the United States isn't at the very top of this list. We find that the most generous countries by these metrics are Indonesia and Australia -- followed closely by the United States and New Zealand.
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/245192/generous-count...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...
As far as opinions toward the unemployed, my google-fu is too weak to find hard data, as current headlines are saturated with the millions of suddenly "not necessary" people losing their jobs, so all I got for you is anecdata. I'm from the Rust Belt, a part of the country that's largely abandoned by Capital, where 30 years ago it was much easier to find a job then than now.
Between your data and jobs now deemed essential which were previously held in contempt (gas station attendants, grocery store workers, etc.) my outlook has become slightly more rosy.
[1] E.g. the latest Medicare for All poll shows overall 69% of Americans support it, rising to 88% of Dems support it. So overall the population wants it yet it doesn’t happen. You also see similar disconnect between what people support and what we have with other policies that would make American society more compassionate one. (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/25/poll-shows-near...)
It's important to note that, with the Democratic primary having wound down, most of these 88% of Dems seem to have voted for an imagined version of Joe Biden who was, at the least, not explicitly against Medicare For All.
Yet again, it is even more obvious than before that the United States is an oligarchy without exception.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par... (A wider partisan and ideological gap between younger, older generations)
eg: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/2020-republicans-doo...
Source?
It was already bad enough in normal conditions, but when our collective fury is unleashed on 20something million people, and likely more before this is all said and done, I'm afraid of what the short-term and long-term effects are going to be. I'm afraid to even speculate on this.