While many college students are concerned about scoring a summer internship or scoping out the next good party, fourth-year Minnesota State University student Em Hodge and many people she knows have an entirely different concern: food insecurity.
“I know a lot of students and friends I’ve worked with don’t know where their next meal is coming from,” Hodge said. “And SNAP could really, really benefit them, but they just make a little too much money,” she said, referring to the federal-state food aid program and its tight eligibility requirement for students.
“Which is just so unfortunate,” said Hodge, a student lobbyist with Students United.
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