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In February 2019, UC Berkeley’s Basic Needs Center will open on the lower level of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. The center is the first of its kind on campus.
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The campus partnered with the Alameda County Community Food Bank, which has a CalFresh outreach team that comes to campus to host application sessions and provide case management for students eligible for the program.
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This number applies to San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties, but other places in the Bay Area are becoming more expensive as well.
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The campaign coincides with the fifth annual CalFresh Awareness Month, and aims to make healthy options available and accessible to CalFresh recipients.
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Representatives of the Hunger Free Campus Program asked for an increase in funding from the California Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, aiming to expand programs that currently allow students with food insecurity to have access to food on campus.
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Cal Dining’s Bear Market now accepts CalFresh Electronic Benefit Transfer Debit Card, or EBT, which aids food-insecure students.
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Although more UC Berkeley students are using food stamps than ever before, policy restrictions surrounding CalFresh subsidies have limited the aid for some students with disabilities.
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As a food-insecure student who struggles to balance the stress of a job on top of classes, UC Berkeley sophomore Jenifer Lomeli-Quintero called the food stamps she is given through CalFresh a “lifesaver.”
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UC Berkeley plans to boost efforts this semester to help an estimated 10,000 food-insecure students enroll in CalFresh, a federally funded nutrition program that helps low-income individuals.
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Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill authored by District 15 Assemblymember Tony Thurmond, to ensure that low-income students have access to the free lunch they are entitled to.
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