According to Frank Newport, the editor-in-chief of Gallup Poll, which interviews 30,000 Americans every month, "to guess that attendance would increase [in recessions] is a common-sense assumption with no basis in data." John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which recently published a study on the correlation between church attendance and economics, has found no link in the past 20 years.
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