Item: News Digest for February 8, 2010
College food banks help students make ends meet:
Students are finding it harder and harder to pay bills and eat healthy, Michigan universities are finding. Michigan State University has seen a 25 per cent increase since 2008 in the number of students who rely on its food bank. “This perception that students, because they’re going to college, have money isn’t accurate and never was,” says Dennis Martell, the faculty adviser for Michigan State’s food bank. Other schools in the state, such as Grand Valley State University, have also started food banks.