More than 21% of North Carolina's four-year-olds enrolled in the state's pre-kindergarten programs during the 2022-2023 school year, up from the prior year but still below the state's pre-pandemic highs, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research.

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Compared to pre-pandemic prices, ground beef is up 35%, chips are up 45%, bread is up 57% and a 12-ounce can of soda is up 66%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks trends on common grocery store items.

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Robert DeMasco at Pierless Fish, his seafood wholesaler in Brooklyn, Oct. 12, 2018. Connecticut-based Ideal Fish is farming branzino in a recirculating aquaculture system, touting it as a fresher, more sustainable model; DeMasco said he didn't think Ideal Fish's farming was any more sustainable than that done in the ocean. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times).... NYTCREDIT: Jessica Hill for The New York Times

Branzino, a Mediterranean Fish, Is Being Farmed in Connecticut