A data point from the California College Data and Policy Project (CCDPP) shows how many low-income students in California Community Colleges and in the University of California system would lose access to CalFresh benefits if they are cut off in November due to the ongoing government shutdown.
According to the data point, which was published previously, 276,000 California Community College (CCC) students, 50,000 University of California (UC) undergraduate students, and 8,400 UC graduate students received CalFresh benefits in Academic Year 2022-23. The data point does not include students from the California State University, though future analyses by the Lab will include these students.
“CalFresh benefits help students pay for food while they’re in school, and about one in five UC undergraduate students receive CalFresh,” explains co-author Jesse Rothstein, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy, David P. Gardner Professor of Higher Education, and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and the faculty director of the California Policy Lab’s UC Berkeley site. “Students use these benefits to afford their groceries, so if they don’t receive the benefits next month, then they will face some painful decisions about where to pull from their already limited budgets.”
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