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Tuition or Dinner? Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry
NYT ^ | 5-2-19 | Kaya Laterman

Posted on 05/04/2019 3:22:06 PM PDT by dynachrome

In the coming weeks, thousands of college students will walk across a stage and proudly accept their diplomas. Many of them will be hungry.

A senior at Lehman College in the Bronx dreams of starting her day with breakfast. An undergraduate at New York University said he has been so delirious from hunger, he’s caught himself walking down the street not realizing where he’s going. A health sciences student at Stony Brook University on Long Island describes “poverty naps,” where she decides to go to sleep rather than deal with her hunger pangs.

These are all examples of food insecurity, the state of having limited or uncertain access to food. Stories about college hunger have been largely anecdotal, cemented by ramen and macaroni and cheese jokes. But recent data indicate the problem is more serious and widespread, affecting almost half of the student population at community and public colleges.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: college; fakenews; hunger
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To: dynachrome

But they can pay for smartphones...


41 posted on 05/04/2019 3:41:20 PM PDT by LadyShires
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To: dynachrome
A health sciences student at Stony Brook University on Long Island describes “poverty naps,” where she decides to go to sleep rather than deal with her hunger pangs.

Name withheld because if we looked up her Facebook account, we'd see a waddling corpulent hambeast.

42 posted on 05/04/2019 3:41:24 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: dynachrome
These stunted failures better get used to being hungry. When the few remaining adults climb the golden stairs it's gonna be hell on Earth. Hunger will be a preferred option.
43 posted on 05/04/2019 3:41:33 PM PDT by coaster123 (Men: Standard American handshake. Women: Curtsy.)
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To: cyclotic
I graduated with $7.49 to my name. Could have eaten for a few days with that, even at todays prices. Rice, Oatmeal, Grits, tuna fish, Ramen, Raisins, You can make it work

College students would say:"Hey after the first two lattes and one of those artichoke quiche things at Panera I'm back to starving. And what about my bottles of natural spring water and gluten free rice crackers?"

By the way, almost every morning I make myself delicious grits. Thanks for the shout out for that fine product.

44 posted on 05/04/2019 3:41:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I worked as a waitress. I got to eat there and went to school around that job (also, there was almost always something they’d let you take home).


45 posted on 05/04/2019 3:43:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: dynachrome
Sure. Everything is awful and people are starving now that Trump is president. So unlike the golden era of Obama....

We have now reached Soviet levels of media disinformation.

46 posted on 05/04/2019 3:43:18 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: dynachrome

The poor dears. Ramen noodles are still around.


47 posted on 05/04/2019 3:44:04 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dynachrome

Not my fault.


48 posted on 05/04/2019 3:44:09 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall.)
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To: EEGator

Ah, good ole Judge Smails. Words to live by.


49 posted on 05/04/2019 3:45:05 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dynachrome





50 posted on 05/04/2019 3:46:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: cyclotic

My GD got a 100 recipes w/Top Ramen as a gift for graduation.


51 posted on 05/04/2019 3:47:55 PM PDT by tiki
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To: dynachrome
Yeh....my poor grandson, Anthony eats fried baloney sandwiches all the time. But he's close to home and gets to pig out on a regular basis.

And the kid cooks.

My sons, now in their 50's survived on Macaroni and Cheese which in today's world has become some kind of gourmet dinner. What a joke.

52 posted on 05/04/2019 3:47:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: freedumb2003

In the good old days tuition was cheap and students gained a ton of weight.


53 posted on 05/04/2019 3:48:18 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: frank ballenger

Grits, grits, of grits I sing.

Grits fits in with anything!

Not original with me, I’m afraid. But I certainly endorse the sentiment.


54 posted on 05/04/2019 3:50:14 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: LouAvul

want the taxpayers to pay.....
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True.

And (honestly I need to lose weight, too) look at the average group of ten college students. About 4 are overweight, usually. I noticed the Walmart cardboard ad showed a heavy woman promoting their generics. And a TV ad showed a heavy nurse checking on patients for some drug.
More Amy Schumers around than Kate Uptons.

I happened to see a picture of a routine gathering of some people (maybe 100) listening to someone speak. Maybe 1950s. Only 1 or 2 out of the entire group were overweight. All others were average normal weight. Not today.


55 posted on 05/04/2019 3:51:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: dynachrome

Get a part time job at a food joint. Or are they too good for a job? I worked at the library during college so I could get textbooks. To get first dibs on classes I needed, I worked Registration. I was never short of money but then I didn’t fritter it all away on $5 mocha frappe whatever coffees.

I had a meal ticket which was waaaay cheaper than going out to eat. The cafeteria was closed on the weekends so I ate a 45 cent can of Spaghetti-os or walked to the fried chicken place for a $1 snack box. Or friends would get together with someone bringing hot dog buns and someone bringing a package of franks. That was before the days of microwaves so we cooked in an ancient popcorn popper that had a heating coil or put foil on a clothes iron. Surely, these millennials can scrounge up a quarter for a package of Ramen.


56 posted on 05/04/2019 3:51:39 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: EEGator

They’d do better enrolling in trade school.


57 posted on 05/04/2019 3:52:46 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: dynachrome

I ate a trainload tuna sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, and pasta with all sorts of different [cheap] toppings. Peanut butter sandwiches etc.

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn....about millennial college students who never learned how to feed themselves. Take it up with mummy and da da


58 posted on 05/04/2019 3:52:52 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: rdcbn

Not to mention the latest in big name designer clothes, manicured nails, colored and highlighted hair, tattoos, piercings, and tons of make up.

They are not hurting.


59 posted on 05/04/2019 3:53:22 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: EEGator

That amount is sick. There should be congressional investigations into the high price of college.


60 posted on 05/04/2019 3:54:29 PM PDT by Stepan12 (potusm)
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