NEW STUDIES HAVE FOUND THE HOMELESSNESS AMONG COLLEGE
STUDENTS CONTINUES TO BE A BIG PROBLEM AND IT MIGHT
ACTUALLY BE A LARGER PROBLEM THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.
THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF STUDIES, THREE RECENTLY, THAT
LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THE NUMBER
THAT ARE CONSIDERED EITHER HOMELESS OR ITS CALL IT
PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED.
INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE STAYING WITH FRIENDS ARE LIVING IN
SHELTERS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE STUDY SUGGEST THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES
NATIONWIDE COULD BE CONSIDERED HOMELESS OR PRECARIOUSLY
HOUSE EITHER BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN HOLT THROWN OUT OF HOME,
EVICTED, OR SLEEP IN A SHELTER, CAR OR ABANDONED BUILDING.
THERE WERE RESEARCHERS FROM TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN
PHILADELPHIA THIS PHYSICALLY LOOKED AT THIS ISSUE AND THEY
FOUND OUT THAT ANYWHERE BETWEEN 12 TO 14% OF THE STUDENTS ARE
EITHER HOMELESS OR PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED, AND I THINK THE MOST
INTERESTING PART ABOUT ALL OF THIS IS THE KIND OF REACTION
PEOPLE ARE HAVING TO THE STORY.
THE REACTION IS, WELL IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO GO TO COLLEGE,
YOU CAN AFFORD TO PUT A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD SO STOP
WHINING AND CRYING ABOUT IT.
WHEN I CAME ACROSS A STORY, I WAS SUPER CURIOUS TO SEE
WHAT THE COMMENT SECTION INCLUDED.
IS THIS WEIRD DISCONNECT.
YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARGUE, STOP WHINING, PICK YOURSELF
UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS AND GET YOUR EDUCATION AND THEN GET
A GOOD JOB.
OKAY, BUT EDUCATION IS OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE EVEN IN
SOME COMMUNITY COLLEGES CAN BE PRICEY, AND YOU CAN'T GET A
JOB AT THIS POINT WITHOUT SOME SORT OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
ALSO, IF YOU ARE GOING TO SCHOOL DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU
DON'T EVEN HAVE A HOUSE, ANYWHERE DELIVER SLIP, THAT
IS PICKING YOURSELF UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS.
IT DOESN'T GET
ANY MORE BOOTSTRAPS THAN THAT.
IF YOU ARE SLEEPING IN YOUR
CAR GOING TO COLLEGE ANYWAY BECAUSE YOU ARE DESPERATE
TO GET AN EDUCATION.
YOU SHOULD BE THE CONSERVATIVE DREAM GUY.
LOOK AT HOW
HARD THEY ARE WORKING TO GET IT AHEAD IN LIFE.
BUT I'M GOING TO BE BOTH SIDES HERE IN A SENSE BECAUSE NOW
I AM GOING TO CRITICIZE LIBERALS OR PROGRESSIVES OR WHOEVER
DID THIS STUDY FOR USING WORDS LIKE PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED.
YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
BUT LOOK, A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE, SOMEONE IS PRECARIOUSLY
HOUSED, THEY TURN OFF.
THERE LIKE THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
I WOULD HAVE STUCK WITH HOMELESS OR NOT HOMELESS BECAUSE I
DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED MEANS.
I DAD WHEN HE WENT TO COLLEGE LIVED IN HIS UNCLES TINY
APARTMENT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY AT ALL.
WITH THE PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED?
I DON'T KNOW.
PRECARIOUSLY HOUSE IN THIS CONTEXT, AND YOU GET SUPER
TURNED OFF BY TERMS AND I DON'T KNOW WHY.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE UNDEREMPLOYMENT, YOU
IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN.
UNDEREMPLOYMENT IS NOT A THING.
THAT WAS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST DEBATES ENERGIZE ME UP
SLOWLY CRAZY BECAUSE YES, UNDEREMPLOYMENT IS A THING AND
A LOT OF PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY MILLENNIAL'S, ARE SUFFERING
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PRECARIOUSLY
HOUSED, IT PEOPLE WHO ARE LITERALLY LIVING IN THEIR CARS.
THEY ARE NOT LIVING IN THE CORNER ON THE STREET.
BUT IF YOU ARE LIVING IN YOUR CAR, YOU ARE HOMELESS.
PUT THEM IN A CATEGORY.
YOU DON'T HAVE A HOME.
CAR IS NOT A HOME.
WE'RE DEBATING ABOUT TERMS.
I WILL TELL YOU WHY BECAUSE IT HAS BAD OPTICS, MAN.
WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE THAT DUDE IS EMPLOYED, BUT HE IS
UNDEREMPLOYED BECAUSE WE FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD HAVE A
BETTER JOB, PEOPLE GO I AM DONE WITH THESE GUYS.
METHAMPHETAMINES.
WHEN YOU SAY PRECARIOUSLY HOUSE, HE HAS A HOUSE BUT
HE DOESN'T LIKE IT.
THAT IS THE PERCEPTION THAT THEY HAVE DIAGNOSED AS A MINOR
POINT, BUT I WOULD JUST UP WITH HOMELESS.
THE OVERALL POINT, THE MORE IMPORTANT THING IS IF YOU ARE SO
GUNG HO TO GET AN EDUCATION THAT YOU WERE SLEEPING IN YOUR CAR OR
THE YMCA OF VESTAL EXISTS TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN SO GET AN
EDUCATION, YOU ARE AN AMERICAN HERO AND SOMEBODY THAT PEOPLE
SHOULD LOOK UP TO AND NOT BE TREATED WITH DISDAIN.
EXACTLY AND ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO QUICKLY MENTION.
THIS IS BECOME SUCH A BIG PROBLEM THAT THERE ARE
PUBLIC FIGURES GETTING INVOLVED, TRYING TO DONATE MONEY AND
HELP STUDENTS WHO DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE BUT REALLY DO
WANT TO GET AN EDUCATION.
BIG SEAN, HE IS A RAP ARTIST, SEAN ANDERSON, HE HAS A
FOUNDATION KNOWN AS THE SEAN ANDERSON FOUNDATION AND HE HAS
DONATED SOME MONEY TO AN ORGANIZATION THAT SPECIFICALLY
HELPS STUDENTS WHO DON'T HAVE HOUSING, THEY HAVE NOWHERE
TO LIVE.
THEY ARE LIVING ON THE STREETS, AND I THINK IT IS
INCREDIBLE THAT HE IS GETTING INVOLVED IN OTHER PUBLIC
FIGURES ARE DOING THE SAME.
ALSO, THERE'S THE SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN
FLORIDA AND OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS, THEY HAVE BEEN
PROVIDING RENT-FREE HOUSING THE HOMELESS COLLEGE STUDENTS.
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS IN COLLEGE DOESN'T MEAN THAT
THEY ARE LIVING HIGH OFF THE HOG.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
THEIR WEALTHIER THAT THEIR PARENTS ARE WEALTHY.
A LOT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE STRUGGLING AS IT IS AND
THEN IMAGINE IF THESE KIDS HAVE BEEN DISOWNED BY THEIR
FAMILIES OR DON'T HAVE FAMILIES.
MAYBE THEY WERE BROUGHT UP IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A REALLY TOUGH FOR THEIR
ENTIRE LIVES AND THEY NEED A LITTLE BIT OF HELP.
THAT IS OKAY.
IT IS OKAY TO GET THAT HELP THE
EVERYBODY HAS A DIFFERENT PERCEPTION THAT YOU SAY
COLLEGE AND PEOPLE THINK HARVARD, PENN STATE, WHATEVER.
NO, THIS STUDY THE SAYS 13 TO 14% WAS OUT OF 70
COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF COLLEGES AND AGAIN, IF
YOU ARE GOING TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO BETTER YOURSELF, THAT
IS SUCH A GREAT SIGN OF A PERSON WHO IS WORKING HARD AND MORE
LIKELY TO SUCCEED AND SOMEONE WE SHOULD BACK WITH ALL OF OUR
FERVOR, AND NOT WHEN WE SHOULD LOOK DOWN ON.
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