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Fighting Food Insecurity in Vermont and New Hampshire: A Community Effort

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Across Vermont and New Hampshire , 1 in 11 and 1 in 14 people currently face food insecurity, respectively, with numbers expected to climb even farther in the coming months. In other words, our region’s high cost of living ( about 16% higher than the national average ) reduces the impact of these benefits for qualifying families.

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Do Grocery Stores Need Happy Hours?

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and midnight – when grocery “happy hour” begins at S-market’s 900 stores around the nation, at which point grocery items that are scheduled to expire at midnight tumble into deep-discount mode. Happy hour” at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn’t exactly convivial.

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Raising up nonprofits

Independent Banker

Members of Ledyard National Bank lend a hand to Willing Hands, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding those in need. For its 30th anniversary, Ledyard National Bank decided to ask 10 local nonprofits to enter a video about their work into a contest for the opportunity to win $10,000 and expand their visibility. By Tiffany Lukk.

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RTP Picks Up Pace With Corporates, While CBDCs Raise Banker Doubts

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The bank, based in Vermont, said the adoption of RTP is part of its commitment to connect its business and consumer clients to “the most modern payments infrastructure in the world,” with the adoption allowing corporates and individuals to access funds sent from around the world in near real time.

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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable

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People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

It’s yet another disturbing proposal from the National Credit Union Administration to bureaucratically finagle its way around Congress and federal law. Basically, all air-breathing mammals in the United States would qualify to be credit union members.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: HQ Enhancements, Empathetic AI And Special Guest Bernie Sanders

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Alexa’s reach is long and getting longer, now integrated into 100,000 smart home devices in the market. While Amazon’s search of a new HQ location at some point became like a national edition of “The Bachelor” where only U.S. The project is reportedly codenamed “Dylan,” with ongoing work toward a program for beta testing. Guess what?

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