Maybe Hahvahd should dip into its multi-billion dollar endowment and share some of that money with the downtrodden grad students.
Hahvahd endowment = $36.4 billion.
Fat Chance!
That will be the last source of the money necessary to pay them. Rule #1: Never touch the principal.
Although there are many ridiculous humanities "studies", there are other fields that are actually important, and our nation does need some experts in various fields, especially sciences. The teaching assistant PhD candidates live on about $15K to $20K a year to assist professors making $150K to $250K a year PLUS speaker's fees and book publishing. They are typically around age 30 by the time they finish their graduate degree, during which they do not have time to work elsewhere on top of the teaching load and also finish the dissertation; therefore it's hard for them to have a family and their lives become distorted. This leads to their becoming leftists about money and moral outlaws about sex. So, yes, the universities themselves need to correct this situation.