KLCC s Elizabeth Gabriel reports on food insecurity among college students.
Daniel Aguirre, who goes by Dray, is a second year student at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. The first-generation college student wants to become a nurse. But his lack of stable housing and food can make it difficult for him to concentrate on school.
“There s actually a lot of people who are homeless out here,” said Aguirre. “There s a lot of students that are struggling, [and] a lot of people don t really know that, which is frustrating.”
He usually stays in a trailer located on his friends property and goes to a gym in order to take a shower. Since the trailer was vandalized a few years ago, a lot of the equipment doesn t work. Aguirre often experiences food insecurity because the broken propane system prevents him from cooking.
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An Examination of Monthly Food Pantry Cycles in the Context of SNAP Benefits
Share Article MILWAUKEE (PRWEB) February 11, 2021 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), may be the most notable Food Assistance Programs available nationally. The SNAP program provides food budget discounts to needy families whereas food panties acquire donations of food to hand out to the needy for free. According to new research, pantry-goers do not always exhaust pantry options. In a food bank network where clients were able to visit pantiries up to twice per week, ¾ of them visited once per month or less, often at predictable times of the month. So how does the food pantry intake cycle interact with SNAP?
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at
Monthly Review. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.
The authors thank John Mage, Craig Medlen, and Fred Magdoff for their assistance.
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Bill Knight: Companies pay so badly, workers need aid
Galesburg Register-Mail
When you drive by a local big-box retailer, “dollar store” or fast-food joint, there’s a chance you’ll be passing a place where you and other taxpayers are underwriting companies paying workers lousy wages.
That’s according to the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office’s recent reports criticizing Big Business and Big Government.
Many full-time workers at some of the country’s largest and most profitable corporations get wages so low that they qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamps”) and Medicaid, according to the report, titled “Millions of Full-time Workers Rely on Federal Health Care and Food Assistance Programs.”