Over summer break, University of South Carolina hospitality assistant professor Scott Taylor Jr. can still be found in the kitchen making meals and snacks for college students who face food insecurity.
“I used to work in restaurants,” Taylor said. “My job is to feed people. And still today, it’s how can I feed people on campus and take care of that community?”
But feeding students, and other people around the state, may become more difficult in the coming years as major changes to the federal food benefits program go into effect, advocates and researchers warn…