Oregon study: 59 Percent Of College Students Are Food Insecure

59 Percent Of College Students Are Food Insecure: Study

By Samantha Goodwin | Jan 28, 2014


Some of the reasons behind this could be a combination of rising college costs, more low-income and first-generation students attending college, and changing demographic trends.

"For past generations, students living on a lean budget might have just considered it part of the college experience, a transitory thing," said Megan Patton-López, lead author of the study with Oregon's Benton County Health Department. "But rising costs of education are now affecting more people. And for many of these students who are coming from low-income families and attending college for the first time, this may be a continuation of food insecurity they've known before. It becomes a way of life, and they don't have as many resources to help them out."