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 ...
Who wants to bet me that they are using cell phones, have a monthly bill in the hundreds, and are going to live concerts?
I know people within 4 miles of where I live who are OFF THE GRID & have no electricity from the power company.
Cry me a river about these ‘college students’.
In order to stop being homeless and starving, getting a job should be the first priority.
They should learn to hunt...
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Reminded me of what Mike Huckaby said about his college days. He would shoot a squirrel, clean it and cook the pieces in a popcorn popper in his dorm room.
When my husband went to college in the 80’s, he was poor. He worked 3 jobs (at a time) to finance his schooling & a room to live in. There were times where he couldn’t afford to buy food, his roommates would buy boxes of mac & cheese so he’d have something to eat. He also shot squirrels for food. People can be poor & go to college, but they usually have to work hard for it.
For the price of Tide Pods, a sly individual could buy a couple cans of chili.
Maybe these purported - to - be poor and starving students should get a job. I call major BS.
I graduated from veterinary college not owing one red cent. I worked at night at the UTMRC Hospital doing differentials for the hospital and was paid nicely for it. A couple of hours a night got me $20 a night. I took freelance jobs for researchers taking care of their laboratory animals during school breaks. I was also in the National Guard. My GI Bill benefits ran out my first year of veterinary college. There were times I needed to study but I had to work. I turn a deaf ear to students today that say they cannot afford college and are not willing to work and just borrow money to pay for the schooling.
Yep - when one spends his money on beer and drugs, the “soup kitchens” get more customers.
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.
First problems first: There are WAY to many people attending College.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
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