January 26, 2007

More Students Seek Campus Jobs as Work-Study Positions Dwindle

By SARA LIPKA

As more college students are relying on part- or full-time work to help pay for their education, federally financed work-study jobs are becoming harder to find.

According to the annual national survey of freshmen released last week by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, 29 percent of students said they would put at least some earnings from a part-time campus job toward their educational expenses, and 24.3 percent of students said the

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