Harvard Encourages Students To Use Food Stamps

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Harvard Encourages Students To Use Food Stamps


Ben Wilson   
August 15, 2023

Harvard University, the wealthiest university in the world, is recommending that some of its students apply to receive federal food stamp benefits.

"Did you know that Grad Students may qualify to receive assistance paying for food & groceries?" the Harvard University Health Services advertised on a flyer for an event earlier this year.

The school has an endowment of $53 billion, the largest economic endowment in the world. The university's advice that graduate students seek food stamps comes as graduate students have demanded Harvard increase their $40,000 yearly wage. The Harvard Graduate Students Union, which has gone on strike over the pay, wants a $20,000 increase to the wage.

The school receives hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the federal government, much of it for research.

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[PeteS in CA]

Students "paying" something like $50K-$60K per year tuition applying for food stamps need an, "Oh HELL no!" refusal letter that includes a threat to prosecute for welfare fraud if they apply again while attending Harvard or any other Ivy League university!

[Kamaji]

Students "paying" something like $50K-$60K per year tuition applying for food stamps need an, "Oh HELL no!" refusal letter that includes a threat to prosecute for welfare fraud if they apply again while attending Harvard or any other Ivy League university!

Why?  That presumes they have sufficient income; however, if the funds are borrowed, then they do not have sufficient income, and if I recall correctly, eligibility for food stamps depends on income.

[PeteS in CA]

Why?  That presumes they have sufficient income; however, if the funds are borrowed, then they do not have sufficient income, and if I recall correctly, eligibility for food stamps depends on income.

Harvard should provide necessary board out of that $50K-$60K per year.

[andy58-in-nh]

Students "paying" something like $50K-$60K per year tuition applying for food stamps need an, "Oh HELL no!" refusal letter that includes a threat to prosecute for welfare fraud if they apply again while attending Harvard or any other Ivy League university!

It's actually worse than that, because when you enter a graduate program at Harvard: you get paid a salary (for grading undergraduate papers, research work, etc.).

Rents and food expenses around the Cambridge area are not exactly cheap, but... this is really ridiculous. 

[Kamaji]

Harvard should provide necessary board out of that $50K-$60K per year.

Maybe so, but if they aren't required to do so, then it's their choice whether they do or not, and eligibility for food stamps generally depends on what you're actually getting paid, not what your employer could hypothetically have paid you in the best of all possible worlds.