In our Your Choice, Your Voice series, you told us you were interested in learning about a variety of issues and the top response was inflation.The annual inflation rate reached a 40-year high of 9.1% by the middle of 2022. As of last month, it has eased to just 2.4 percent. Even though the inflation rate has eased, prices are still about 20% higher than when President Joe Biden took office.To highlight the inflation issue, Maine’s Total Coverage visited the Augusta Food Bank on Free Food Thursday. Jon and Sandy Willette started coming to the Augusta Food Bank about a year ago. We asked him if he thinks inflation is the problem. “Oh wicked, wicked,” Jon said. “When we go to the store, we go to Sam’s Club once a month, and we don’t get out of there less than 300 bucks, and we don’t have much.”The Willettes have a …
