via Milwaukee Journal Sentinal on January 13, 2022
Midwestern community colleges work to lure, and keep, students struggling with poverty
By Becky Z. Dernbach, Mario Koran, Olivia Lewis and Ata Younan
Forty-two percent of Minnesota community college students say they cannot afford to eat balanced meals, according to a 2019 survey by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. And 49% said they struggled with housing insecurity in the past year.