Struggling college students turn to food banks
AP
25-Jul-2008 (4 comments)

SEATTLE - Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.

For years, the small University District pantry has offered help to the working poor and single parents in this neighborhood of campus rentals. Now rising food prices are bringing another group: Struggling college students.

"Right now, with things the way they are, a lot of students just can't afford to eat," said Terry Capleton, who started a Facebook group called "I Ain't Afraid to be on Food Stamps" when he was a student at Benedict College in South Carolina.

Some of the students are working their way through college with grants, loans and part-time jobs. Others are just reluctant to ask parents for more money.

"More and more, it's just the typical traditional student, about 18 to 22, that's feeling this crunch," said Larry Brickner-Wood, director of the Cornucopia Food Pantry at the University of New Hampshire.

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Farhad Kashani

mostaghel, its not for

by Farhad Kashani on Sun Jul 27, 2008 03:41 AM PDT

mostaghel, its not for fascist leftist kids like you, its for grown ups like us.


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mostaghel

Re: Wanna compare the two (To: Farhad Kashani !)

by mostaghel on Sat Jul 26, 2008 03:33 PM PDT

Farhad

this is not for Zio-Nazis like you to worry about. This is for intelligent folks to compare.

 

Have a cold cheesh in sunshine  (with ice)


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Farhad Kashani

Wanna compare the two

by Farhad Kashani on Sat Jul 26, 2008 01:15 PM PDT

Wanna compare the two country’s education systems, ha? Lets go:

 

-         In the U.S, it takes couple of days for a student to enroll in college, where as in Iran, it will take years, and thats if they can pass the “Konkoor”, to get in the college, most student can’t get in, that’s why we have a huge young unemployment rate and huge young addiction rate.

-         U.S hosts close to 50 out of top 100 universities in the world, 8 in top 10. Iran’s best ranks 1000 something.

-         The U.S educational system is by far, the greatest in the world. Millions of foreign students, including tens of thousands of Iranians, many of them top Olympiad winners, even after 9/11, flock to U.S universities to get the top level education.

-         Just because some few students here and there are having hard time means nothing. Just 3-4 weeks ago, a building that was under construction in Saadat Abad, collapsed, killing many students who were working there as construction workers to pay for their costs.

  

You’re not fooling anybody.


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mostaghel

This in the richest country on earth ?

by mostaghel on Sat Jul 26, 2008 07:31 AM PDT

WOW !!! What do we get with a moron and fraud president.


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