California colleges full of hungry students
By Emily DeRuy, Bay Area News Group
That old line about getting college students to attend events on campus by offering free pizza is no joke for some young people these days.
In a first-of-its-kind study that looks into the issue of hunger on college campuses nationwide, 13 percent of households with students at community colleges and 11 percent with students at four-year colleges worried about having enough money to buy food in 2015.
It’s a problem that some schools say has become more prevalent in recent years.
