More than a quarter of students skipped meals or cut their meal sizes at least once within a 30 day period, the report said. Also, housing insecurity rose 10% in 2020, with many students admitting that they couldn t afford to pay rent and utilities.
The recession immediately following the pandemic struck U.S. employment particularly hard, and college students were just as negatively affected. More than one in three lost their job due to COVID-19, and a quarter worked less or for less money. I was doing pretty well just a year ago. Now . I spend every day looking for work, worrying about food and rent, (and) how to pay even a little to keep attending school – because I’m sunk if I don’t, and getting calls from collection agencies, even a lawsuit from a credit card company. It’s hard to focus on school, an anonymous student in Hawaii quoted in the report said.
Covid-19: Some Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Doses on Hold in U.S. After Factory Mix-Up
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Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, contaminating up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and forcing regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines.
Mohamed Sadek for TIME Twyla Joseph in Islip Terrace, N.Y., on Feb. 5, as her day begins
The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged.
Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her classes online at home in Islip Terrace, N.Y. She missed out on seasons of varsity cross-country and track, and lost contact with the coach who “used to give us really good life advice.” During the five months she was furloughed from her job at Panera Bread, she spent the money she’d been saving for college. And while she’s back at work now for about 28 hours per week, often dealing with customers who refuse to wear face masks, she is worried not only about whether she will be able to
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Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need.
Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges’ dining services.
In the last year, rates of hunger around the country have skyrocketed: Last month