April 18, 2015

Fast food workers only twice as welfare dependant as adjunct professors

 
Percent on public assistance
Labor Center, Berkeley

Zaid Jilani AlterNet  -  During [the recession],  “the number of people with master's degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.'s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655.”

“Everyone thinks a Ph.D. pretty much guarantees you a living wage and, from what I can tell, most commentators think that college professors make $100,000 and more,” said Michael Bérubé, the president of the Modern Language Association, who was interviewed for the report. “But I've been hearing all year from non-tenure-track faculty making under $20,000, and I don't know anyone who believes you can raise a family on that. Even living as a single person on that salary is tough, if you want to eat something other than ramen noodles every once in a while."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting, the starving intellectuals are supposed to teach the current system is good and has a bright future etc? How do you think that is going to work out? Usually once the system goes to chaos and the elites support the fascists verses the communists. One or the other kills out the intellectuals who actually don't favor any kind of fake democracy. Never ending repeating nasty history and on the payroll "intellectuals" always acting surprised that it is happening again.