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College students struggling with access to food are more likely to experience issues with mental health. According to a correlational study examining college freshmen living in residence halls from a large southwestern university, students who were food-insecure, were more likely to self-report higher levels of depression and anxiety, compared ...
Raised on welfare by his grandmother, Joseph Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when his eligibility was revoked. In the midst of the ...
Stigma and lack of awareness prevent students from getting food assistance. Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty ImagesIt’s harder to learn when you are suffering from hunger or searching ...
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And evidence exists that overall, campus climate has improved over the last 15 years. Yet this progress is not consistent across institutions. Reports of harassment and discrimination, especially for transgender students, remain a problem at a time when student learning and persistence are central issues for higher education leaders.
[21] Hunger, on the other hand, is defined as "an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity." [21] The USDA has also created a language to describe various severities of food insecurity. [21] High food security occurs when there are "no reported indications of food-access problems or limitations". [21]
Working locally allows organizations to directly solve issues of hunger in their immediate communities, and this work is often successful in providing more nutritious food to disadvantaged communities. However, critics of the food justice movement argue that working locally also prevents larger structural changes from occurring.
Since 1985, the Student Hunger Drive has provided over 17 million meals to children and adults facing hunger in River Bend Food Bank’s 23-county service area. This year, students from […]