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Hunger in U.S. Now Worse Than Pandemic Peak

More people in the United States are going hungry now than during the depths of the pandemic six years ago. A survey released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of

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Gulf shrimpers seek congressional help as fuel soars

Acy Cooper eats lunch out of his pickup truck at the Myrtle Grove Marina in Port Sulphur, La. on Friday, May 15, 2026. Cooper had just returned to the marina after a shift ferrying oil rig workers from offshore platforms — a job he's taken because of falling shrimp prices and increasing fuel costs.

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Free Fillets Help Maine's Struggling Fishing Industry

Rising grocery and fuel costs have battered Maine’s groundfishing sector, but a pandemic-born program is offering both relief to fishermen and free, locally caught seafood to communities.