Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by legitster on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:29AM (#15357807)

If it includes room and board and some insurance plan, $1300 a month isn't bad? My brother had a something like that at his university and ended up saving most of it because you really don't have a lot else to spend it on.

Sure, I wouldn't start a family on that, but it far surpasses what I lived off of right after college.

EDIT: It looks like the article was about people late in their careers. I was assuming that adjunct faculty positions were only entry level or for grad students.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by gervase on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:33AM (#15357856)

Graduate stipends almost never include room and board, as far as I know. This may be different if you're in a high-rent area (UCLA, Stanford, NYU, etc), but in general, your rent comes out of that $1300.

They do currently include decent health insurance, at least. No dental/vision, obviously.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by santaclaus on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:21PM (#15358366)

> Graduate stipends almost never include room and board, as far as I know. This may be different if you're in a high-rent area (UCLA, Stanford, NYU, etc), but in general, your rent comes out of that $1300.

Nope, still gotta pay rent. Attended Columbia for grad school, had to compete in the Manhattan real estate market on < 30k a year for an apartment.

> They do currently include decent health insurance, at least.

Ehhhh, it was of the 'if I get hit by a car and I am in the hospital for two months, I won't go bankrupt' variety. Better than nothing, at least.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by throwaway613834 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:16PM (#15358304)

> They do currently include decent health insurance, at least. No dental/vision, obviously.

Probably school-dependent -- I'm aware of one that does have dental at least (I forget about vision but I think it has that too).

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by tnecniv on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:34PM (#15361651)

I can confirm dental and vision is offered to grad students at the school I went to. It wasn't included in the stipend but it is cheap.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by GlenTheMachine on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:32AM (#15357848)

It doesn't include room and board. It may include health insurance but you're going to pay your monthly fees out of the stipend.

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