Source: Ben Kesslen, NBC NEWS, 1/1/21


As the Dow Jones hits record highs, climbing past 30,000 points and lining the pockets of the country's richest, Greg Meyer of Soldotna, Alaska, is trying to figure out how to get his community fed. Meyer, the executive director of Kenai Peninsula Food Bank in south-central Alaska, makes sure people in one of the hardest-to-reach regions of the country have enough food on the table. Alaska residents, already in a budget crisis, were hit hard by Covid-19: Oil prices tanked, the Canadian border closed, tourism dropped, seasonal fishing was complicated by travel restrictions...

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