Minimum Wage and Work Study

Earlier this month Ohio voted to pass a minium wage law that raises all jobs, including the most common job for a college student, work study. If you are not familiar with the work study system the Federal government as a part of certain student's financial aid allows these students to make a certain amount of money each year. For myself this amount is $2,000. I can work at a position on campus to make this amount. Also, many of the programs (academic and administrative) depend on these student workers to make the offices flow with the limited staff that they have. Before the election earlier this month I attended the all-campus meeting of the Student Senate and posed a question the the high ranking officials of the college, what would happen to work study if this law passes? Amazingly enough they did not have a response for me. The impression that I recieved from them was that this was an issue that they should consider. Yet nothing was published or available to students, the people this would effect the most. Now we sit with one week left (exams?!?!) and still nothing has been told to work study students. This change in minimum wage will take effect on January 1st, before we come back from break, so when we come back this will be in effect.
I have two questions to pose at this point. How many students knew about this change before the election and the possible affects it could insitute? As we learned in class a minimum wage law creates a shortage of jobs, something any student knows is already a problem. The second question is, how do you think you, as a student, will be affected?