NEW YORK (1010 WINS) —A report from the Hope Center at Temple University in Philadelphia found that 48 percent of 22,000 CUNY students that responded to a 2018 survey said they were food insecure in the past 30 days.
"When students can't eat or sleep, we anticipate that their academic achievement is going to be affected by these basic needs that they are not having met. This is most certainly an academic issue," said Christine Baker-Smith, Director of Research for the Hope Center, "It's also connected to the new economics of college."
Smith said 55 percent of CUNY students were housing insecure in the previous year, meaning they didn't know where they'd be sleeping the next night.
Fourteen percent of students were homeless.
CUNY says it is working to address these issues.
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