Still 15 cents a pack.
Posted on 08/07/2017 12:50:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A new Urban Institute study on food insecurity aims to measure just how many college students go hungry.
And while the figures released by the Urban Institute may be alarming, critics say they are too low, especially when it comes to hunger on campuses throughout California.
Right now, the process of applying for and receiving food can be confusing, students say, and many who got free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch as K-12 students suddenly find themselves struggling to navigate the system in college.
In the last couple of years, the state has made it easier for students to apply for food stamps and for colleges to identify which students might need help, and there is some movement to do the same at the national level. Esteban, the Berkeley student, was able to enroll in CalFresh, the state’s food assistance program, and says he can focus on school now that he no longer worries about where he’s going to find his next meal.
The state recently allocated several million dollars each for the UC, CSU and community college systems to build up their response to the problem of hunger on campus and reach out to students.
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Bingo. They never heard of ramen?
Still 15 cents a pack.
I find this rather hard to believe. Community colleges don’t always do this, but every 4-year college I’ve looked at required a meal plan if you lived in campus-owned housing, and most universities require freshman (and sometimes sophomores as well) to stay on-campus unless you have a relative in the city.
Also, even if you don’t have a meal plan, it is very easy to make basic foodstuffs and stay fed. Ramen noodles are 30 cents a ‘meal’. Rice/beans/ground beef make a decent mix and are very cheap to make big meals out of. Maybe if these kids knew how to make a budget and didn’t spend their $$ on going out and partying, they’d find they could afford to keep themselves fed.
they can’t figure out how to get food, yet want us to think they’re smarter than the average welfare recipient?
Top Ramen, Frozen burritos and PBR.
I don’t understand. When applying for Financial Aid, my kids had to include the meal plan when living in the dorm, so the loan covered it. Now both are off campus and have to estimate $ for food. And both work as well.
Not an entirely new ploy, but still wrong. Taxpayers should not have to pay for young adults’ food while they are in college.
Let them first support themselves with a job, taking classes along the way, if nobody voluntarily offers them full-boat scholarships or massive loans.
They’re starving while the colleges charge them $24,000/yr for an increasingly less-valuable and less-meaningful document.
Watch out for splinters.
That blog brings back memories.
My mom was a stay-at-home with six kids. My dad made a very modest salary. She would be able to produce amazing meals for a few dollars, mainly by cooking from scratch ingredients.
Yes. The article made it sound like we have millions of starving kids. Most of them can either get jobs or get easy loans They are far from helpless little starving waifs!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvCMQ_ok1c
What these pathetic snowflakes SHOULD do is stop spending every last $ of the allowance from Mommy on tekkie toys and pot, and learn the lost art of saving.
They are in FRIGGIN’ COLLEGE. But the process of trying to get free food is too complicated for them, so we need to make it easier for them to get free food.
This stuff just makes me sick.
No wonder they can never get my order right.
Yo, brainiacs! The onion rings are the round thingies and the fries are the straight thingies. Sheesh.
I had a roommate that would live on toast and kraft mac and cheese for the week before his financial aid check came.
What I love about Ramen you can have it in a soup or just the Noodles (stir fry) & just add vegies & neat of your choice. Very filling.
And get a dozen eggs, too. Break open a couple into a pot of boiling Ramen noodles and you'll have a workable meal. Problem with these snowflakes is.. they're used to someone caring for their caloric needs and they have no food prep skills of any kind.
Thank God these worthless millennials didn't have to fight WWII.
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I can understand the confusion if you have been on the public dole all of your life. Here is the four step process. It is not that complicated once you learn how.
1. Get a job.
2. Work.
3. Get paid.
4. Go to a store and buy food.
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