stacy palmer, welcome to the "newshour".remind us, first of all, how does the current tax law operate now, when it comes to charitable giving? >> now there's the charitable deduction that we're all very familiar with, and when you itemize on your tax returns, you get to take that deduction for what you give. let's say you want to give $100 and you might get 30 back in taxes because you're at the 30% rate, so out of pocket you've only spent $70, that encourages a lot of us to give, but it's still available to only those of us who itemize. >> woodruff: and the charitable deduction will still be there in the tax law. >> that's right. >> reporter:. >> woodruff: something else will change. >> the number of people who itemize the expected to drop sharply. part of the simplification of the tax law was to say you don't need to itemize and to raise the standard deduction most people won't need to itemize, but that has a big impact on charities because many middle class and upper class people are ones that won't itemize anymore, they