College students, stressed about federal food aid uncertainty, look to campuses for support

The Associated Press ^ | November 8, 2025 | BY SOPHIE AUSTIN

[wetgundog]

WHY? Why are college students on Food Stamps???!!! I never was.

[DIRTYSECRET]

There’s always socialism-looking more attractive since they don’t have Biden to forgive their loans.

[Libloather]

I wonder what the DNC’s Hamas wing brings to the table.

[albie]

Just see your “Peace Studies or Womens Studies profs for help

[ClearCase_guy]

Going into debt with college loans
Living on Food Stamps
Majoring in weak fields like psychology

No bright futures here.

[FreedBird]

Free Food and Health care for people who earned nothing.

[EQAndyBuzz]

That’s what college endowments are for.

[Da Coyote]

The article says all that need be said about both the writer and the ‘kollege’ students. (Mostly studies majors, obviously.) We’ll not talk about the ‘kolleges’ charging for joke degrees.

[Brian Griffin]

“Hannigan receives just under $300 a month from SNAP”

For an adult to eat the food my mother prepared would cost about half that.

SNAP benefits should be capped at $2.50/day/person, increasing as the CPI does.

Benefits paid in daily instead of monthly to prevent binge eating disorder.

“Binge eating disorder (BED)...can lead to significant health issues, including:
Obesity and related conditions (e.g., type 2 diabetes, heart disease)
Mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety)
Poor quality of life and social functioning”

Do those symptoms sound and look familiar?

Paying SNAP benefits in monthly lumps is unhealthy.

SNAP benefits would pay for things WIC does, excluding fish but including chicken and pork.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Many students are facing tuition and housing bills, juggling classes, and often working lower paying part-time jobs that make it difficult to afford groceries, with prices on the rise.

That's terrible. No college students ever had to deal with anything like that before now.

Let them eat Top Ramen.

[9YearLurker]

Or get full-time jobs while studying part-time.

[dinodino]

I never once had to do that either! Yes, I was buying little tins of spaghetti sauce and boxes of spaghetti for all my meals at one point...or going to the salad bar and eating a massive salad that would tide me over for a day or two...never once would I have stooped to food stamps.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I feed a family of 6 for less than that

[Soul of the South]

“WHY? Why are college students on Food Stamps???!!! I never was.”

Same here. I worked during the school year and summers. I also paid off my college loans within two years of graduating. The same for my kids. There is no reason for any college student to rely on government assistance or to default on student loans.

[FamiliarFace]

I remember having plain white bread with mayonnaise and a slice of tomato as a meal, for weeks on end. I couldn’t afford any meat.

[SMARTY]

GET A JOB ALREADY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brian Griffin]

SNAP should be limited to:
1. fresh produce
2. canned veggies
3. basic process pork & chicken
4. basic process dairy & cheese < $5/pound
5. dried legumes
6. wheat flour, pasta, rice
7. tomato sauces < 20 cents an ounce

[Brian Griffin]

Note for $28 (a weekly $2/day amount for two people), one can buy:
two pounds of chicken for ~$5,
four pounds of pasta for ~$4,
seven cans of vegetables for ~$5,
a gallon of milk for ~$3,
two loaves of bread for ~$3, and
a box of cereal (or a bag of fruit) for ~$3,

and still have ~$5 left over for say buying

a 10-pound bag of potatoes one week, or
a bag of sugar and 100 tea bags another week, or
a pound of butter and two boxes of store brand macaroni & cheese another week, or
12 eggs and two boxes of cake mix yet another week.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That could be an option too. My dad worked full-time (and sometimes more) while going through pre-med in three years, back in the early 1940s, because he had to support his widowed mother and his younger brother.