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Where college students can find emergency money and housing
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College students without a financial safety net are in a tough spot when unexpected costs arise. "The chances their parents can pick up the bill are not as high," says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It's not for lack of families wanting to; they don't have it."