Their families are struggling for food as shortages send prices beyond the reach of poorer families.
And, thanks to Interpal, bread from the charity's bakery is delivered to poorer families.
Then they give part of that money to poorer families to yield their desired student body mixes.
Many poorer families find that they can achieve their dream of educating their children only by taking on large debts.
In the past 30 or so years, poorer families have had many more children than richer ones (see chart).
There are certainly legitimate reasons for price differences, but the result is that poorer families pay more for the same groceries.
For example, the Conservatives want child-care support for all, whereas Mr Martin argues that it should be concentrated on poorer families.
Poorer families are moving to parts of town that are not yet gentrified, or else across the Bay to other towns.
The King Edward Foundation helps out pupils from poorer families with bus passes, uniforms and extra expenses such as school outings.
"The strategy has been targeted at low income households in an attempt to reduce the health inequalities that exist between richer and poorer families".
Today Pell Grants, mostly Pell Grants, federal grants for students from poorer families, cover 57% of the tuition expenses at four year public universities.
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The Costs of Education survey, carried out by the Child Poverty Action Group, claims that many poorer families are struggling with the cost of sending children to school.
Only 30% of these young men ever expect to own their own home in their lifetime - compared with 39% among their counterparts in poorer families.
And Dr Patrick McGuinness of St Anne's College pointed to the link between the abolition of grants and decline in young people from poorer families entering university.
There have been warnings that students from poorer families are more debt averse and this could have the appeal of a simple system, with no debts attached.
The federal government, meanwhile, with regard to Pell Grants and grants related to Pell Grants for students from poorer families has dramatically cut the Pell Grant system.
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It has mandated generous parental leave (though many women are still scared of antagonising their bosses by taking their full entitlement), subsidising kindergartens for poorer families and so on.
Again the most prestigious universities drew the smallest number of children from poorer families - with less than 10% of students at Oxford and Cambridge being drawn from deprived areas.
He said his party would tackle child poverty as a priority and would fight for tax and social security powers to enable poorer families to keep more of what they earned.
At present, for example, all families with dependent children receive child benefit, and some quite well-off ones also get extra help through the child-tax credit, which is mainly for poorer families.
Mr Gove argued that it was poorer families that had the most to gain as "the accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility".
Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.
Ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown defended the coalition's record on helping poorer families but said: "I don't think we can get ourselves out of the economic mess that we're in without people having a price to pay".
The Government has come under increasing pressure from trade unions and Labour backbenchers to help poorer families deal with the rising cost of energy via a one-off tax on the profits of utility companies.
The composer, who has worked with the likes of opera singer Bryn Terfel and the Royal Ballet, is also concerned that poorer families could miss out, with only wealthy parents able to afford music lessons.
Most new students will not pay upfront, there will be more financial support for those from poorer families and everyone will make lower loan repayments than they do now once they are in well paid jobs.
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The committee is not due to report until the end of the year, but this week it published a consultation paper which provides ammunition for those who believe that cuts in government funding do penalise students from poorer families.
The result is that, although developers often promise to include low-cost housing as part of new developments, the expensive houses generally get built first because they are the most profitable, and homes for poorer families stay stuck on the drawing-board.
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