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Students are often forced to choose between expensive textbooks and school materials and food, leaving many students hungry. Hunger can distract students from focusing, leading to decreased academic performance, longer time than usual to graduate, and higher rates of depression. [4] Furthermore, familial financial hardship, ever-rising costs of ...
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Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when his eligibility was revoked.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 ...
Forty-five percent of college students are struggling to eat. In this exclusive investigation, Soledad O'Brien examines the growing crisis at universities across the country, and how the COVID-19 ...
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 ...
Research by Sara Goldrick-Rab and others found that more than half of all community-college students surveyed struggle with food insecurity. [154] A follow-up study found more than a third of college students don't always have enough to eat and lack stable housing. Nine percent of those surveyed were homeless. [155]
[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]
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Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a national nonprofit that mobilizes 6,000 college students, food providers, and local businesses in the fight against climate change and hunger by recovering perishable food across the supply chain that would otherwise go to waste and donating it to organizations that feed people experiencing hunger. As one of the ...