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'Working 80 Hours a Week Leaves Very Little Time to Waste Money' Posted: 17 Jul 2016 01:57 PM PDT A doctor of disadvantaged patients details her long and arduous path to relative financial security: I would like to add my financial story to the numerous responses you have received from other readers. I would like to remain anonymous. I grew up in a lower-middle class setting: My father was an engineer, my mother a teacher's aide, then a teacher. I never had to worry about food on the table, much less a roof over my head, but there was no room for extras. By the time I was in high school, we were settled very comfortably in middle class. Then the recession of the early 2000s hit, the company my father worked for closed down, and I graduated high school and started college, with my parents living on a single income and my elementary school-aged brother still at home. By nature (and perhaps a little by nurture as well), I was always a frugal person, but knowledge that my parents were borrowing almost $40,000 a year to pay my college tuition kept me on the very straight and narrow. I only ate the two meals a day that were included in my room and board. I walked everywhere. The rare trips into the city were done via public transportation. After I graduated from college, I attended medical school, and this time, the student loans were in my name.

Educators Are Fighting College Food Insecurity Posted: 14 Jul 2016 02:34 PM PDT A starving college student's diet may spark images of surviving on Cup Noodles, but for nearly half of the 240,000 students at the University of California's 10 campuses, imagination is reality. A report released Monday on food insecurity concluded that four in 10 students in the statewide system have no consistent access to "high quality and nutritious" foods. Of the nearly 9,000 UC students surveyed, lower-income students were more likely to be food insecure than their higher-income peers, and nearly one in five students experienced "very low food security," including skipping meals because of limited resources.

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