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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he got a PhD in history, he worked HARD for his $15,000 a year of taxpayer funded stipend. [b]He taught 3+ classes a semester to undergrads who really need to learn history, and probably worked for free assisting his professors in their research.[/b] He hoped to get a job teaching full time, but the short-sighted political attacks on education ruined the market for him.

I'd much rather he get the food stamps, than the aforementioned welfare queens who never worked a day in their lives, and never intend to. [/quote]

This is an important point. Forgive me for not stopping to read the article just now, but OP should recognize that during his student years, this man was probably providing a lot of services to a lot of people with minimal or no direct compensation.

And this is often a problem for recent graduates, even those with advanced degrees. It's a bit exploitative because a lot of companies and especially non-profit organizations are eliminating paying jobs and creating unpaid or small-stipend "internships" to cover so many projects-- even ones that require specialized skills and educations.[/quote]

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