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AUGUSTA 鈥?Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords will begin a nine-state tour in Maine, where she will advocate for tougher gun laws that she says will help protect women and families.
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Massachusetts 2.19 percent donation rate was good enough for 46th among the 51 places surveyed. Hey, that s not in the bottom five!
  
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The former Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, who was severely wounded in a 2011 shooting in Tucson that killed six people, will seek to elevate the issue of gun violence against women and push for state and federal action to make it more difficult for domestic abusers to access firearms.
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At the top end of the charitable states, Utah residents took the highest spot on the list with a 6.56 percent donation rate, almost four times the donation rate of New Hampshirirites. Utah s high donation rate is likely due to the high percentage of Mormons living there, as the  adherents to give 10 percent of their income to the church.
  
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Giffords, who was shot in the head, remains partially paralyzed and continues to have difficulty speaking.
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Among the 50 biggest , New England cities didn t donate much. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy residents donated just 2.3 percent of their income, making it the 47th-most giving city. But take pride Bostonians: at least you re more generous than Hartford, Conn. or the Providence area, otherwise known as the two least-giving metropolitan areas on the list.
  
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On the first stop of the Protect All Women Tour in Portland on Tuesday Giffords planned to meet with state domestic violence advocates, law enforcement officials and others.
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Utah again comes on top Salt Lake City residents donate 5.4 percent of their income, followed by a number of Southern cities in Memphis, Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta.
  
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Giffords gun-control advocacy group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, calls guns and domestic violence a lethal mix, noting that abuse victims are more than five times more likely to be killed if the aggressor has access to a gun.
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New England s low church attendance rate and culture of independence seems to be to blame here, Chronicle editor Stacy Palmer told the .
  
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Among the changes Giffords has sought is to include people with misdemeanor-level stalking crimes among those who are prohibited from buying firearms and to expand background checks to ensure that domestic violence abusers can t buy firearms at gun shows.
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Solely examining IRS tax filings is a limited way to understand charitable giving, of course. Plenty of donations are not marked off as tax deductions. Volunteer hours, too, were not counted in this study but still constitute significant donation of time and effort.  
  
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After visiting Maine, Giffords will travel to New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, Iowa and Oregon. The last stop of the tour will be in Seattle, Washington, on Oct. 22, according to details a Giffords aide provided to The Associated Press.
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Not that this necessarily helps New England s stats. Among the states with the , Utah comes out on top (again). Four midwestern states round out the top five of highest volunteer rates, with nary a New England state in the top 10.
  
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It s worth noting that this data all comes from IRS filings in 2012, otherwise known as BIBC (i.e. Before .) That viral sensation began in honor of former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates, who is afflicted with ALS, and then spread across Facebook news feeds from there.
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@@@ Massachusetts 2.19 percent donation rate was good enough for 46th among the 51 places surveyed. Hey, that s not in the bottom five!

At the top end of the charitable states, Utah residents took the highest spot on the list with a 6.56 percent donation rate, almost four times the donation rate of New Hampshirirites. Utah s high donation rate is likely due to the high percentage of Mormons living there, as the adherents to give 10 percent of their income to the church.

Among the 50 biggest , New England cities didn t donate much. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy residents donated just 2.3 percent of their income, making it the 47th-most giving city. But take pride Bostonians: at least you re more generous than Hartford, Conn. or the Providence area, otherwise known as the two least-giving metropolitan areas on the list.

Utah again comes on top Salt Lake City residents donate 5.4 percent of their income, followed by a number of Southern cities in Memphis, Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta.

New England s low church attendance rate and culture of independence seems to be to blame here, Chronicle editor Stacy Palmer told the .

Solely examining IRS tax filings is a limited way to understand charitable giving, of course. Plenty of donations are not marked off as tax deductions. Volunteer hours, too, were not counted in this study but still constitute significant donation of time and effort.

Not that this necessarily helps New England s stats. Among the states with the , Utah comes out on top (again). Four midwestern states round out the top five of highest volunteer rates, with nary a New England state in the top 10.

It s worth noting that this data all comes from IRS filings in 2012, otherwise known as BIBC (i.e. Before .) That viral sensation began in honor of former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates, who is afflicted with ALS, and then spread across Facebook news feeds from there.

The data is broken down by zip code in a at The Chronicle s website, so you can easily check out how little your neighbors donated.

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