Why Student Food Insecurity?

I was browsing Reddit last fall around the time I was trying to decide on a thesis topic, and I came across this question. This is just one example, but a quick reddit search of foodbank will pull up dozens of these posts. There seems to be a few concerns: Shame / Not wanting to take food from someone less fortunate / do I really need it? Worry about someone judging them, and so on. When I got…