Posted on 04/05/2018 3:16:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Sarah Barrett didn't need a grand study to tell her a bunch of students on Kansas State University's campus had been going without food.
As an assistant dean of students, she had heard enough of them talk about choosing books or housing costs over food to know that the university needed to do something to help its hungry students.
K-State students are not alone. The problem of college students' inability to afford food is common on campuses across the country.
According to a first-of-its-kind survey of two- and four-year private and public schools, 36 percent of students on college campuses in the U.S. do not get enough to eat.
On Wednesday afternoon just after the noon lunch hour, the UMKC Kangaroo Pantry opened its doors to a short line of students needing food. Katie Garey, who manages the pantry, and a student volunteer were busy stuffing plastic bags with nonperishable food items requested by the handful of students who filled out order forms that day.
"We are pretty busy," Garey said. "At the end of the semester, we start recognizing that students no longer have food on their meal plans or maybe their financial aid has run out or they have given up a job so they can study, so they no longer have that income."
And that lost income could also impact housing. Nearly as many of those who are food insecure don't have secure housing. The U.S. Department of Education describes the homeless as "lacking fixed, regular, adequate housing," which includes those living in shelters, hotels, cars, tents or "couch surfing" at friends’ houses.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
I’ve got a kid about to graduate. He worked full time summers, part time at a campus job and now has a solid part time job in his engineering field.
He actually cleared $30,000 last year working part time.
There’s always stripping. Oh, that’s right. Feminists have taught them to look ugly.
True bullshite! All college students are eligible for SNAP. $200 in food assistance per month. Or they could live on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches like my huband and I did, back in the fifties!
LOL. That’s a great idea.
I didn’t realize this had already been posted. Drudge posted this earlier today.
Make the DACA brats share some of their bounty with the skinny white kids!
We had a saying when I was growing up. WORK YOU WAY THROUGH COLLEGE!!! I did it! It’s not impossible to do!
Spending your room and board money on drugs will do that to you.
It’s a matter of priorities.
Have the social justice warrior professors donate food and go to door to collect food for the kids. (Even though they might NOT really be hungry, it would be a good experience for the professors. Ha, ha!)
Potatoes around here are a little over .70 cents for a 10-lb bag. They just don’t know how to shop and have other priorities.
I’m not buying it ... maybe they should ditch the weekly parties, Spring vacations to Mexico or the Caribbean, or cut the drug habit back.
Had 13 W2 forms one year. Company’s working you 29 days or less and laying you off so they didn’t have to pay benefits. Just keep knocking.
Cry me a river. If they are so needy, they why don’t the all loving and all knowing liberal profs help them?
I don’t have anything against the college students of yesterday, but I absolutely hate the college students of today.
I’m sure that there must be some that are fine, but I do not know them, and I do not know of them. As a whole, it seems that college students are the dumbest people on earth, and the most arrogant, self centered people on earth.
But it isn’t their fault, they have been mal-educated on purpose and made into weapons of the Left.
We give welfare to deadbeats but not to poor college students. It is ridiculous. I was very poor in college and for few semesters I lived in the 24 hour library and showered at the undergrad gym. As for food, Ramen noodles.
College is too expensive to self finance. Sorry it’s true.
My undergrad experience was very similar to yours.
College STUDENTS aren’t so much privileged, but college professors and administrators certainly are. College education prices have been skyrocketing for decades, at many times the rate of inflation. It’s a freaking scam!
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