WEST VIRGINIA (WVNS) - Student support programs for low-income students have lost crucial federal funding.

Funding cuts to programs under the TRiO umbrella stand to impact over 40,000 students nationwide, according to Government Relations Chair for West Virginia TRiO, Scott Robertson. Many of these programs have been geared toward offering support services for first-generation and low-income students. Robertson said the programs are not only crucial to students but are also a sound investment of federal funds.

"For every federal dollar that is invested in a TRiO participant, they will pay $13 back in taxes to the federal government for every dollar invested once they earn their college degree," he said. "There's not a lot of federal programs where you get that kind of return on investmen

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