Editor’s Note: This is the third column in a six-part series under the theme “Poverty is a math problem (and so much more).” In the spring of 2012, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a special section titled “From Graduate School to Welfare.” Among the essays in this section was “The Ph.D. Now Comes with Food Stamps,” which revealed that in recent years the number of Americans with advanced academic degrees receiving federal aid of some kind had increased by approximately 300 percent.
A few years later, in the midst of America’s supposed economic recovery from the financial crisis of […]
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