Researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab found that 36 percent of students on U.S. college campuses do not get enough to eat. The report includes students from two-year, four-year, private and public universities found that nearly 1 in 10 community college students have gone a whole day without eating in the past month. That number was 6 percent among university students.
Food is not the only problem. The report found 46 percent of community college students and 36 percent of university students struggle to pay for housing and utilities. In the past year, 12 percent of community college students and 9 percent of university students have slept in shelters or in places not intended as housing, or did not know from one day to the next where they would sleep.
The report is based on a survey sent to 66 schools; 43,000 of whose students responded. It used the Department of Agriculture's assessment for measuring hunger, which is pretty strict.
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