Federal Work-Study Program Introduction to the Federal Work Study (FWS) Program The Federal Work-Study Program provides jobs for students with financial need. Many students take advantage of this ...

The federal work-study program pays students to register voters and work as nonpartisan poll workers. The money isn't being used to bribe voters.

Federal work-study reach is broad, with more than a half-million students participating in the program annually. The federal government spent nearly $1 billion on the program during the 2016-2017 ...

Unlike other types of student financial aid, the federal work-study program typically accounts for only a small portion of funding sources that families use to cover college expenses. In 2022, for ...

On and near many college campuses you'll find student baristas, daycare workers and administrative assistants who all have one thing in common: they're employed through the federal work-study ...

In the jigsaw puzzle that is paying for college, work-study jobs are the sky pieces — they help fill in the gaps between everything else.

UTSA enters third year of federal work-study program supporting off-campus employment JANUARY 11, 2023 — The 2022-2023 academic year marks the third and final year of UTSA’s participation in an ...

Congress is currently considering cutting funding for the campus-based Federal Work-Study Program that helps the most economically disadvantaged students pay for postsecondary education. Such action ...

History of the Federal Work-Study program The Federal Work-Study (FWS) program, part of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, was created to increase access to higher education for low-income ...

The Federal Work-Study program, managed by the Department of Education, pays low-income students for work done on college campuses, in nonprofits, and even for private-sector businesses as a way ...

It turns out that the Orwellian-named Federal Work-Study program is an apt metonym for college’s wrongheaded approach to employment. I was reminded of the second reason in reading last week’s alarming ...