Work study works, doesn’t it? Federal work study is a government program that gives colleges and universities approximately US$1 billion in subsidies each year to help pay students who work part-time ...

Attending college requires a significant investment of both time and funds, so to offset the cost of higher education and increase its accessibility, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) provides the ...

Whether you're planning to head to college right after high school or want to go back to school after some time away, paying for college can hold you back from attaining your degree. There are options ...

Two in five of the nation’s full-time undergraduates work jobs in addition to their responsibilities as college students. Many of them land those jobs through the federal work-study program. The ...

About the author: Stanley Litow is Accenture professor of the practice at Duke University and a trustee at the State University of New York. He previously served as president of the IBM Foundation and ...

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In the recent article “The Tutoring Problem” (The Chronicle, May 14), the idea of federal work-study students from colleges working to tutor students in local schools is represented largely as a ...

In the United States, over 600,000 undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for federal work-study benefits, a program that was developed in 1964 with the goal of helping low-income college ...

FIRST ON FOX: The attorneys general of West Virginia and Indiana led a coalition of 16 states in sending a letter Tuesday to the Department of Education, warning that the agency's recent guidance on ...

A Feb. 28 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a Fox News clip of Vice President Kamala Harris speaking about a way for college students to earn money. "The Federal Work-Study Program now ...

Seventeen-year-old Kaylee Razo of Melvindale has already worked for a bank, a law firm and studied at the University of Notre Dame — all before graduating high school. That's thanks to Detroit Cristo ...

November 13, 2025 - Many mentoring and tutoring programs in K-12 schools rely partially on federal grants through AmeriCorps — funding that President Donald Trump has proposed entirely eliminating.