Students who participate in federal work-study are more likely to graduate and get a job after college. But those who get the biggest academic benefits from the program — low-income students at public colleges who would have worked anyhow — are the least likely to receive the federal grants.
Those are the primary findings from a newly released studyby two researchers at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
While the research found generally positive impacts of the federal work-study program, it also found one surprising downside — participants take on substantially higher debt compared to non-participants with similar characteristics, including income, gender, institution type and other factors.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/31/federal-work-study-pays-best-students-public-colleges-increases-debt-loads
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