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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Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when his eligibility was revoked.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 ...
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]
Before the COVID pandemic, about 30% of college students experienced food insecurity at some point during their time at school, according to a report.
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 ...
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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.