Sequester hits work-study funds — and impacts this family - Diana Reese, Washington Post

The sequester has hit home for me. We’ve joined the 37 percent of Americans who said in an ABC News/Washington Post poll earlier this month that they’ve been hurt by the sequestration — the $85 billion slashed from the federal budget March 1. My daughter, who’ll be a junior this year at a private liberal arts college in Missouri, just heard from the financial aid office that because work-study funds for this year “have been significantly reduced,” she probably won’t get a job under the federal program which pays a portion of the cost of campus jobs for students. It’s because of the sequester, the financial aid officer told me. My daughter had hoped to earn $150 to $200 a month from a work-study job on campus (she doesn’t have a car) to cover her groceries and incidentals; she lives in a university-owned apartment and buys the cheapest meal plan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/05/29/sequester-hits-work-study-funds-and-impacts-this-family/