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When homework is least of your worries: How colleges help hungry students

Before the coronavirus shut down his school and workplace, things were looking up for Nicholis Perez, a student at Florida State University.

The start of his freshman year had been rough, to be sure. He’d spent his first two months in Tallahassee sleeping in his 1996 Ford Ranger and working 40-hour weeks at a pizza joint, trying to save money for an apartment.

But by the end of the fall semester, Mr. Perez had moved in with a friend and advanced to a job at a fine dining restaurant. This past March he purchased

A need-seeking majorityStudents step up for classmates

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