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The Courier

College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier

A Red Roof Inn repurposed into an Interim Housing Center by DuPagePads, located in Downers Grove, Ill.

DuPage County Homelessness and Its Link To COD

Most recent estimates place over 50,000 people below the poverty line in DuPage County, while issues like high housing costs and overcrowding affect more than 100,000.
Nick Karmia, Staff Writer
April 10, 2023
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Sleeping Outside to Raise Awareness

Sleep Out Saturday hoped to bring awareness to the issue of homeless in DuPage County
Katie Toolan, Staff Writer
November 8, 2021
OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take to ease hunger on college campuses

OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take to ease hunger on college campuses

The U.S. Department of Education must create an Office of Basic Needs to incentivize schools to ensure students have enough to eat and a place to sleep
Abigail Seldin and Alice Yao, The Hechinger Report
September 3, 2020
Annisha Thomas is a single mother attending Nashville State Community College via the Tennessee Reconnect Program at the age of 35 to set an example for her children, Kayden, 4 and Kaylee, 7.

Long before coronavirus, student parents struggled with hunger, homelessness

Inspirational stories emerge even as new concerns over food, housing and child care risk derailing college plans
Liz Willen, The Hechinger Report
May 7, 2020
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