OPINION: Bring awareness to food scarcity among students
Pullman is home to, arguably, some of the deepest roots of college community, flowing with wheat fields, Cougar Gold cheese, Ferdinand’s ice cream and Coug pride. But among us, living on College Hill and in our dorms, are students who are experiencing the realities of food scarcity. In 2018, Whitman County was found to be the most food-insecure county in Washington with 13.4 percent of its citizens experiencing hunger, including students, according to Feeding America’s research. Although a large jump has been made to close that gap between the food-insecure and food-secure, COVID-19 has...
Source: dailyevergreen.com