This is Embarrassing

A new statistic has come out listing the percentage of people who volunteer in the 50 largest cities in the country.

I sometimes brag to my Boyfriend about how we folks in Florida love to help our neighbors in need.

His city, Minneapolis-St. Paul ranked #1.

The only three cities in Florida that were even listed were Jacksonville at #45, Orlando at #46 and Miami at #50.

They suggested a possible cause for Miami's poor showing might be their higher than average poverty rate. But, to me, that just makes the need for volunteers greater.

How embarrassing for us Floridians.

My initial explanation was that churches aren't in the mix. Church people are big time volunteers but when they do it through the church it doesn't get counted.

But then Salt Lake City was ranked #2. As we know, it's loaded with Mormons. There are probably enough volunteering Osmonds to skew the count.

And, too, my argument doesn't hold up because this place (Minnesota) is overrun with Lutherans.

We Floridians need to step it up.


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