
Hungry in college?
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