November 1, 2009
Student Pay for Selected Jobs
U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Emily Bowers works as a natural-history interpreter in a museum at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Emily Bowers works as a natural-history interpreter in a museum at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Is "worked my way through college" on its way to becoming the next "walked uphill in the snow, both ways"?
A student office assistant in the chemistry department at the University of Notre Dame would have to work 135 hours a week, 50 weeks of the year, just to cover tuition, room, and board.
Things start to look up if you're a computer geek at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pulling in almost $10 an hour above the federal minimum wage. You'd have to work only
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