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

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With many pandemic-related food relief programs ending—including increased SNAP benefits and free school lunches —as well as rising inflation and food costs , the risk of food insecurity for residents across our region is ever-growing. It’s also something that we can all work on together to eliminate.

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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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Vermont: Daring To Be Different, To The Surprise Of No One

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Despite being nearly geographically identical to its neighbor to the east , New Hampshire, Vermont is very much its own place. percent for the state, with the overall nation at 4.9 percent for the state, with the overall nation at 4.9 By The Store Front Numbers . So, the outperformance is a bit of scant consolation.

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Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK?

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Other highlights of the study include: In Q2 2015, specific improvement was driven regionally by 4.1% And since the health of these businesses has such an impact on the health of our nation, we decided to take their temperature, state by state, as primary season unfolds. gains in the Southwest and Mountain areas, respectively.

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CUs Try To Solve The Cannabis Cash Conundrum

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And yet, beyond the patch quilt of states that have accepted marijuana sales, such transactions are illegal on a national level. Recent developments in New Hampshire show how financial services can extend at the state level to cannabis firms.

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At the Intersection of Banking and Politics

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One nationally acclaimed expert on banking, Kevin Jacques, recently predicted that if Clinton wins the election she will appoint individuals largely from the world of politics with an eye toward strengthening financial regulation and oversight of the banking system as a whole. I’m not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.