Thirty-six percent of four-year college students and 42 percent of community-college students are “food insecure,” according to a report by Temple University and Wisconsin HOPE Lab. Headlines called hungry students a “hidden crisis.” Baloney, responds James Bovard in a USA Today commentary. This analysis is modeled on the Department of Agriculture’s annual Food Security survey. USDA is emphatic that its survey does not measure hunger.Temple/HOPE respondents were asked questio

Millions of Americans start college, but never finish a degree. Why not? Poor preparation and too many competing responsibilities, conclude Michael Lawrence Collins and Joel Vargas. “Close to two-thirds of community college students work to support themselves and their families while in school, and they may be facing homelessness and hunger,” write Collins and Vargas. “Many are single parents, and more than a third are the first in their families to attend college.” Remedial