The oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, and that should be a source of relief. But with fewer cleanup jobs to be had, many of the people hit hardest by the huge spill are struggling as badly as ever. Boat captains and deckhands who managed to put food on the table over the summer because they got hired by BP to skim the oil are being dropped from the payroll at a time when huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico remain off-limits to those who haul in shrimp, oysters and other seafood. Now, just when with the environmental and engineering crisis is easing, large charities providing food to coastal communities have run out of money, homeless shelters are filling up with men thrown out of work by the spill, and demand for drug and alcohol counseling is up. [refers to BP]