In a normal year, the Work-Study program provides nearly $1.2 billion in help for more than 612,000 college students across the country. The federal government typically covers about 50% of the wages, and the institutions pay the rest. Many of those jobs were on campuses that have gone completely or mostly online during the pandemic, and colleges and universities have not been able to adapt all of them to this new reality. In a national survey conducted by The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium at the University of California at Berkeley, 53% of low-income and working-class students said they had lost wages from on-campus jobs.