There's no way to avoid it. As the cost of college grows, research shows that so does the number of hungry and homeless students at colleges and universities across the country.
Still, many say the problem is invisible to the public.
"It's invisible even to me and I'm looking," says Wick Sloan. He came to Bunker Hill Community College in Boston more than a decade ago to teach English full time. He says it felt like he quickly became a part-time social worker, too.
"When I first got here, I was always told that we should never miss a chance to give students food," he says. "I foolishly thought at the time they meant Doritos and cookies. It's protein that they're after. It's crazy."
Bunker Hill is home to one of 25 food assistance programs on Massachusetts' public college campuses. That leaves just four public campuses across the state without one.
[For more of this story, written by Kirk Carapezza, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...g-with-college-costs]
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