Some states were using welfare program funds intended for low-income parents on scholarships or grants for middle- and high-income students without children. Colleges and universities in at least eight states could lose a total of between $970 million and $1.3 billion in scholarship funding under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Early in their college career at Michigan State University, Ashley Thoms can recall a key moment that helped to shape a career path, albeit amid a stream of tears while conversing with an adviser. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my future, I was freaking out,” Thoms recalled. “My adviser, she would make me feel so calm, happy and assured of myself and my future. I want to give people that feeling. I want people to be able to talk to me, to leave and feel like they have a plan, that they are capable of things.”