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College and University Food Bank Alliance and increasing reliance of low income household students on food pantries
04/08/2015
The College and University Food Bank Alliance has 183 members. With increases in tution of about 25% at U.S. universities and colleges since 2007, more students from low income households are having to reduce meals or use a food bank. About 40% of students in the UC system are from households with incomes less than $50,000 in 2015. Wage stagnation in the U.S. as food costs increase is also leading to more students having full tution aid depending on supplemental ways of meeting food costs. This is affecting the ability of students to study leading the UC system head, Janet Napolitano, to get a a study on food hunger.
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