Copy shortlink: Food shelves and meal programs across Minnesota fear a COVID-triggered hunger crisis will remain at record levels through 2021 — a "new normal" of need. But the state appears to have flattened the hunger curve, avoiding bleak forecasts from earlier this year. New data show food shelves are on pace to end 2020 with a record 3.75 million visits — nearly 1.5 million more than in 2008 during the recession, according to Hunger Solutions, a statewide advocacy group. The number of visitors to food shelves during the Great Recession doubled and never bounce...