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Coronavirus: Post-secondary students call for federal aid as survey reveals financial struggles

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The Canadian government must quickly expand eligibility for its emergency financial relief programs to post-secondary students, a majority of whom are worried about making ends meet during the novel coronavirus pandemic, an alliance of student unions says.

A new survey conducted by Undergraduates of Canadian Research-Intensive Universities (URCU) polled over 3,000 students across the country and found 79 per cent of those surveyed are worried about whether they’ll be able to pay their tuition in the fall.

A similar number, 73 per cent, said they are concerned about paying their rent through the summer. Many of those students are quoted in the survey report as saying the summer jobs they were relying on to stay afloat are now in doubt or

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