Detroit Free Press: Broke college students turning to food banks for help

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<p>[College</a> food banks step up for students struggling to pay bills | freep.com | Detroit Free Press](<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20100206/NEWS06/2060324/1318/College-students-turning-to-schools-food-banks]College”>http://www.freep.com/article/20100206/NEWS06/2060324/1318/College-students-turning-to-schools-food-banks)</p>

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<p>I go to Michigan State University. Michigan students have been very hard as we were forced to come up with an extra $1k this year after the loss of the Michigan promise scholarship (in November??) while many of us have at least one parent out of work. This does not surprise me in the least.</p>

<p>ETA: In addition, we also have work-study students who can’t find jobs because there are none left, let alone jobs for non-WS people and there are very, VERY few jobs around campus because of the economy.</p>

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<p>"were forced to come up with an extra $1k this year after the loss of the Michigan promise scholarship "</p>

<p>*2k for older students.</p>

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<p>^ True. Sorry, I was thinking for us lower classmen.</p>

<p>Oh, and we also lost the Michigan competitive scholarship (although we had part of that restored second semester).</p>