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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by tarboreus on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:42PM (#15360983)
I think you're confusing "liberal arts" with "humanities." Math and science are liberal arts, though engineering is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

Humanities students do indeed go on to earn less, but the differences are much more slight than stereotypes would have you think. They also narrow as people progress in their careers:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/05/new-data-what...

There are indeed too many PhDs minted in the humanities, but I'd say this also applies to pretty much every field other than, perhaps, CS. Times are pretty tight for bench and social sciences as well.

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