Source: http://neatoday.org/2016/10/26/hunger-on-college-campuses/
Photograph taken by Mary Ellen Flannery
Hunger and food insecurity for college students is an issue in America. High prices of tutition, low wages, transportation costs, many hours spent on course work during the week etc contribute to difficulties students make in finding ways to feed themselves. The man pictured above volunteering at the campus food bank is an adjuct professor at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and is also aregular patron at the food bank.
“Now, more than ever, a college degree is the surest ticket to the middle class,” said Obama at a speech in Tennessee. Students know this, too. That’s why they skip meals to pay for books, or cover the rent. In a desperate but hopeful calculus, they opt to starve the student they are now to invest in the nurse, or teacher, or accountant that they someday hope to be.”