Have college students always been on food stamps?

Young women with children is more common now

Older women going to school is more common now

I imagine those 2 demographics comprise a huge amount of that population

I have had a few sorority girls knocking on my door wanting to "clean" my home lately. The number has increased substantially and I do have a clean home.

Oh look, another instance where government took over and prices are unaffordable. But I’m sure some dipshit here will blame it on “greedy corporations “ and not leftist governance.

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Young women with children is more common now

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In college yes

In general no

I didn't know of any, but could be cause it wasn't my social group.

Though we did assume athletes took advantage of all the free shite they could get and the AD helped them.

I hope now in the nil era they don't have access to free shite like pell grants, etc.

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Many students are facing tuition and housing bills, juggling classes, and often working lower paying part-time jobs that make it difficult to afford groceries, with prices on the rise.

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No way....you mean to tell me they have expenses for things like food and tuition....and they are broke as undergrad students.

I don't remember anybody throwing a telethon for me or other guys in my dorm.

We bought them from the bum outside the liquor store back in the 90’s. $200 of stamps for $100. Plus no tax.

That still occurs to this day.

Every year, I pick out 1 or 2 YouTubers who post hiking videos and watch them attempt to through hike the Appalachian Trail. This year, I watched a 23 year old girl and her mom attempt the trek. They were from the Bay Area in CA. The daughter talked about acing the MCAT and her future career in medicine. She studied abroad in Ireland. She had top of the line hiking gear and watched shows on Netflix at night. The daughter had a friend in NYC and visited her twice during the 7 months it took to hike the trail. She went to Broadway shows and shopped for a dress to wear to a relative’s wedding. She joked how the people in GA and SC didn’t know how to make a good chai latte. She got a nice apartment in Philadelphia while hiking so she could move there and attend school after the hike. She now works as a nanny for a family with a couple of kids.

In one of her last videos on the trail, she complained that she was looking forward to using her EBT card because it would have a few month’s of credit on it but someone hacked her account and stole “her” money.

I had a roommate in college (1976) that had food stamps. His parents had divorced when he was young, Neither was clamming him as a dependent so he was able to qualify.