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 $53B dollar endowment is larger than the GDP of dozens of countries, but it’s trying to force underpaid...
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I believe this and cross-dressers reading to 5-year-olds in public libraries, and free summer lunches for all the school kids in my community although they don’t need them and are not means tested, are all about smoothing them out and conditioning them for future voting and political compliance.
Political conditioning, making things normal and routine, eliminating any internal or individual resistance to government services, or biological revulsion.
Universities have morphed into Univer$itie$
Okay students our first class will be parasite training....
I call BS, $40,000 does not qualify one for food stamps, a Grad student would not even get the min of $23.00 a month
How pathetic. I’d say Shame on Harvard, but they have no shame.
yes true that..
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