Now, she’s also helping unsheltered college students at California State University, Long Beach, saying there are levels to poverty that include sleeping on a couch, also known as "couch-surfing," to sleeping in one’s car.
"We started to hear from students that they’re making choices like ‘Do I pay for rent or do I pay for food? Do I pay for my books or do I pay my rent?’ A lot of time when students make those choices, they pay for rent, so they don’t get evicted," Danielle Munoz, the Director of Basic Needs at CSULB explained."They start to feel like they don’t belong here," Munoz added.
"There is a stigma that college students are broke, but nobody really does anything about it," CSULB Student Body President Isaac Julian said. "Some of them don’t like to speak up and that’s totally understandable.""I want to make sure that students know that they’re not alone. That you can make the most of your situation and you can still achieve great things," Julian said.
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Amazon:
Have they considered getting a job?
Food insecure? Does that mean people worry what others think when they eat certain foods?
I’m surprised the numbers are that low. I wouldn’t have survived college if it weren’t for student loans and food stamps
Oh Boo-Hoo.
I think you mean lazy and entitled. 18-20 year Olds can go to school and work
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