Washington Post -According to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday
by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, 36
percent of students on U.S. college campuses do not get enough to eat,
and a similar number lack a secure place to live. The report, which is
the first to include students from two-year, four-year, private and
public universities found that nearly 1 in 10 community
college students have gone a whole day without eating in the past month.
That number was 6 percent among university students.
Researchers
blame ballooning college costs, inadequate aid packages and growing
enrollment among low-income students — as well as some colleges’
unwillingness to admit they have a hunger problem. College hunger is not
a new issue, researchers caution. But it appears to be growing worse,
and not merely because college is getting more expensive.
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