Even though school is out for the summer, a Denton food pantry, which helps hungry college students, is busy. Those who run the Shiloh Food Pantry on the University of North Texas campus say they’re filling what they see is a growing need.
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‘It’s tragic’: Students go hungry in Northern Virginia
Public school students in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax and Loudon counties rely on in-school food pantries.
State survey shows hunger, homelessness a common problem at public colleges
Massachusetts’s commissioner of higher education on Friday introduced the “sobering” results of a first-of-its-kind survey that found widespread hunger and homelessness across the state’s public college campuses. According to the Wisconsin HOPE Lab survey, which included 8,333 students, only 38 percent of respondents at community colleges were not dealing with some sort of food or housing security problem, while just over half of state university students claimed the same.
Majority of Minnesota State University students are food insecure
Nearly two-thirds of Minnesota State University undergrads have experienced food insecurity, a recent survey conducted by sociology students has found. Sixty-four percent of the MSU survey respondents said they could not afford or for other reasons did not always have adequate food to eat during the prior month. Prior studies at other schools have found food insecurity rates between 14 and 59 percent.
