Where college students can find emergency money and housing

College students without a financial safety net are in a tough spot when unexpected costs arise. “The chances their parents can pick up the bill are not as high,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not for lack of families wanting to; they don’t have it.” A 2018 national survey led by Goldrick-Rab found that over a third of university students out of over 20,000 surveyed said they were food insecure, or had had limited or uncertain access to food in the previous 30 days. And 36 percent of those students said they were housing insecure in the last year, which means they had trouble paying housing bills or had to move frequently.

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