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SLO Food Bank and Cal Poly Basic Needs combat food insecurity · Stories from Mustang News on KCPR

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  Speaker 1: On the fourth Tuesday of every month, students gather at
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  Speaker 1: the Health Center lawn to collect free bags of groceries
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to offset the rising cost of food
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  Speaker 1: because of the recent cutbacks on SNAP funding due to
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  Speaker 1: the government shutdown cow Poly Construction Management Softmore Madison Coyban
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  Speaker 1: explained how this event has helped her.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really cool because it helps me not have
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  Speaker 2: to stress so much about how much I'm spending on groceries,
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  Speaker 2: and it allows me to be able to get access
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  Speaker 2: to fresh fruits and vegetables and know that the community
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  Speaker 2: and the school cares about our wellbeing.
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  Speaker 1: Food insecurity among college students has grown in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: with about three point eight million college students struggling to
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  Speaker 1: afford their next meal, according to the US Government Accountability Office.
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  Speaker 1: Alyssa reader, who was a Slow Food Bank volunteer and
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  Speaker 1: Liberal Studies senior, showed her concern for the current state
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  Speaker 1: of the federal government and her reasoning to help.
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  Speaker 3: Out things would like being cut down and funds for
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  Speaker 3: the food bank being cut down. That's what kind of
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  Speaker 3: made me want to volunteer because they're running out of
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  Speaker 3: those funds that they need, and they need more people
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  Speaker 3: there to volunteer, and so I found out it was
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  Speaker 3: really easy, and then after my first time, what kept
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  Speaker 3: me coming is the people there.
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  Speaker 1: Having the Slow Food Bank come to campus allow students
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  Speaker 1: to focus more on their academics rather than where their
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  Speaker 1: next meal is coming from.
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  Speaker 2: Accuracy.
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  Speaker 3: It's really about like doing my part in the community
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  Speaker 3: when everything around me just seems so negative at the time.
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  Speaker 1: As not benefits get delayed through November, events like these
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  Speaker 1: have become essential for students who are trying to stick
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  Speaker 1: to a budget while in college. For more information on this,
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  Speaker 1: visit slow foodbank dot org. For Mustang news on KCPR,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Randy and Golia