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Cora Hereford hosts Tea Time, a show about college students' struggles. Today's topic is financial hardships, including groceries, gas, and apartments. Gas prices have risen, making it difficult for students to afford transportation. Buying groceries is also expensive, especially for those who want to eat healthy. Landlords are raising rent prices, adding to students' financial burdens. Gavin Johnson, a college student, shares his experiences with these challenges. Cora emphasizes the need for change and discusses the importance of addressing these issues. She hopes the show has raised awareness and encourages listeners to join the conversation. Hello everyone, and welcome to Tea Time with Cora, the show that highlights issues involving college students and their day-to-day struggles. This is Cora Hereford, and today we'll be discussing information with groceries, gas, apartments, and etc. All the hardships many college students are going through financially. We also have a surprise guest, Gavin Johnson, a 21-year-old college student, ready for you at the end of the show. Make sure to listen in because you don't want to miss anything we'll be discussing. Now before we get into the tea, today's sponsor is none other than 3D Shapes. 3D Shapes is a company that prides itself on educating the youth about the beauty of 3D shapes. They offer classes to help identify them, and by signing up for their two-year program, you can get a 3D shape in the mail, any shape you'd like for free. If you sign up now, get the first week free of charge. Use code CIRCLESARENOTSPHERES to get 5% off your second week. Now of course living as a college student isn't the easiest experience, but with all the prices going up on necessities, it's almost impossible for us to survive. For there needs to be a change, and we need to start speaking our minds on this issue. Since the rise of gas prices, many students have been having a hard time affording to make it to class. Since I go to a community college, there are no dorms available, so the students who live farther than walking distance are forced to either take the city bus, or spend a fortune on gas every week. Not only does the city bus not reach most areas where students live, but it doesn't always run with early classes, or late classes, which causes students to sometimes have to drive their cars. So since many students have to buy gas, there's been an uprange for gas prices where it's going to $3.95 up to $6.50 a gallon, this is insanity, and clearly we're not enough to make it for it. Now, groceries are not becoming a luxury, going to the grocery store nowadays can be stressful due to the budget planning, and having to save up whole checks just to be able to eat. It's sad how eating in used to be a result of saving money, but now it doesn't matter if you eat out or not, there's no saving in either option, especially if we're trying to eat healthier, then you're really going to burn holes through your pockets. There should be some sort of discount or reward system other than EBT for college students to be able to buy food without burning a hole in their pocket, which sometimes EBT doesn't always go to students based on their current level. Now it's time to welcome Gavin Johnson to Tea Time with CORA, he's here to share his insight on inflammation and how it affects college students, along with his own personal experience. Good evening Gavin, thanks for joining us, how are you today? I'm doing well, thank you. So Gavin, tell me what it's like living as a college student with the rise in inflammation. Well I would like to say that it's difficult, trying to juggle work and school along with barely affording essentials, I feel like a chicken with it's head cut off running in circles. Just last week at Target, I was trying to buy a carton of eggs and it said it was $6. I was taken by surprise, because I've never seen eggs so expensive. Not only that, but buying any type of fresh produce is so expensive, I feel like I can only afford ramen or those microwave dinners you find in the freezer department. This is a tough time, not to mention my landlord has raised the rent twice since the year started, and I still need my showerhead fix, yes he wrote them, it's been very tough. Yeah that does sound tough. So many students are going through the same experience too, thank you for being on the podcast Gavin. No thank you, and thank you for having me. Now speaking on rent, the renting crisis needs to be addressed right now, it's been reported that landlords in Arizona have been raising the rent 10% to up to 25% just this year. Many students can barely afford food and gas, yet now rent is being brought into the picture. A lot of students are not even able to work, or when they do work, they can't work much due to class. There should be some type of system where it can at least discount the rent, or have a system where landlords can't raise their rent prices for students in particular. Thank you all for tuning in with Tea Time with Cora, I hope this has opened the eyes for those who didn't know about these prices increasing, or those who just have no effect from it and want to learn more about it. Discussing information with groceries, gas, apartments, etc. is never an easy topic to discuss, but I'm glad to be able to speak on it. See you next time!