You can often get such assistance if you are poor. If you aren’t, it’s expected you or your parents will cover basic costs.

Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

I was an orphan at the time, but when I was putting myself through college I had food stamps and it helped me a ton with keeping me fed. I was fortunate to have that program available to me at that time in my life. I also worked several jobs at the same time.

College students can be eligible for SNAP & HUD.

It is actually the case around here.

The idea is derived from one of the basic human rights: education.

It means, everybody has the same right to education (not just the rich ones), and therefore it is society’s task to make sure that nobody gets denied it just because the parents are poor.

Republicans hate clever people.

Ronald Reagan didn’t like that black people could protest while in university.

At the public university I attended, there was a student health center where you could see a doctor for routine things. Not a complete hospital or anything but we weren’t totally on our own.

America is run by psychopaths. Who only want suffering for anyone in need. Just how this system has murdered its way to existence.

Fear of an educated proletariat