VOLUNTEERS SORT items at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank in 2019. / COURTESY CONNIE GROSCH/RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION
Rhode Island again ranked near the bottom of WalletHub's annual list of the most charitable states, coming in at No. 45 in the ranking released last month. The list compares states in 19 indicators of charitable behavior, including volunteer rate, share of donated income and share of sheltered homeless. While one ranking system may somehow…