Posted on 08/15/2023 1:07:17 AM PDT by Libloather
An event at Harvard University encouraged some graduate students to apply for food stamps, despite the school's $53billion endowment.
Earlier this year, Harvard University Health Services reminded grad students that they could fuel their bodies and stock their pantries by using government assistance to pay for groceries.
'Did you know that Grad Students may qualify to receive assistance paying for food & groceries?' read a flier for the event.
Harvard's endowment makes it the richest university in the world, a fact that sparked outrage among community members who argued that paying graduate students a livable food stipend would barely even register in the school's massive budget.
Graduate students are also paid a $40,000 yearly wage by the university.
'Harvard's endowment is over $50 billion. Undergraduate tuition is over $55k a year. Yet the grad students who do most of the teaching, advising, and mentoring at Harvard are so underpaid that they're eligible for food stamps,' wrote one Harvard student on Twitter.
Harvard has some 21,766 graduate students. If the university were to sacrifice 1/50th of its $53.2billion endowment, it could, in theory, pay each student $48,883 - a nearly $9,000 increase over their current stipends of $40,0000.
The Harvard Graduate Student Union has gone on strike to advocate for higher wages - once in 2019 and again in 2021.
The more recent strike, which was a three-day work stoppage, amounted to the union vowing to strike again if the school did not agree to its bargaining terms.
The school then forced the strikers to sign an agreement allowing Harvard to retain salary funds in an amount equal to the time students withheld labor.
A student at the time wrote on Twitter: '@Harvard’s $53B dollar endowment is larger than the GDP of dozens of countries, but it’s trying to force underpaid...
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That must be a mistake. Maybe they meant “Haarvaard” University.
Buncha Commies....
The Haarrrrvaardhhh! facility and staff certainly enjoy their excess income.
For being leftists, they don’t walk the walk....
This is just another example of how to push up inflation.
There is no hypocrisy like hypocrisy overgrown with ivy.
Bud Light will give them all a job. Smart cookies, learning to game the system has become a real asset in business.
Typical libs. They’re all about redistribution of wealth as long as it’s not their wealth that’s being redistributed. Sanctimonious old goats.
“the grad students who do most of the teaching, advising, and mentoring at Harvard”.
Make the professors do their job instead-—save a lot of money.
Then the grad students can go find a job that matches their degree. I’m sure there are plenty of good paying jobs for the gender study grads. They won’t need welfare then.
Harvard is an elitist haven.
You would be shocked at how little time Ivy League professors spend in the classroom.
The problem is not those that apply for the food stamps, it’s those that allow them to be given the stamps.
I’m all in favor of forgiving student loans and paying for it with a tax on these massive endowments.
We mere mortals and rubes should be more understanding, as poor Harvard can only afford to pay many in its administration and faculty a million and more USD each year, and that....
... oh, wait.
Tax? 99% tax.
Time to defang those leftist Marxist lairs.
There is no hypocrisy like hypocrisy overgrown with ivy.
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As far as I’m concerned, that’s the quote of the day!
Teach them to be Leeches early
bow down to the almighty dollar.
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