New CalFresh ‘super clinics’ to help hungry students (berkeley.edu)
A major push will start in October at UC Berkeley to begin helping an estimated 10,000 students apply to CalFresh , a federally funded nutrition program that issues a free debit card for groceries to those who qualify. According to the Alameda County Community Food Bank , which runs the program on campus, most individual college students who are eligible can receive up to $193 in benefits a month. A CalFresh "super clinic" will be held one Friday a month to introduce approximately 50...