{"id":47380,"date":"2012-06-19T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47380"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:15:19","slug":"the-number-of-phds-on-food-stamps-triples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/19\/the-number-of-phds-on-food-stamps-triples\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number of PhDs on Food Stamps Triples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This spring the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/From-Graduate-School-to\/131795\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> offered an in-depth look at the number of highly educated people receiving federal aid. \u00a0Though, on average, they are still doing better than people without college degrees, these populations have not been immune to the recession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/125.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47381\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/125.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I sensed an undercurrent of classism in the article (e.g., &#8220;how could someone like\u00a0<em>me<\/em>\u00a0be on aid&#8221;), it offered an interesting profile of the post-graduate degree job outlook, especially for people with a PhD. \u00a0Notably, it reminds us just how risky pursuing graduate work can be; 70% of all faculty are now off the tenure-track. \u00a0That often means that they teach part-time, have no benefits, and face semester-to-semester job insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>These faculty could probably do something else, but many of them are trying to realize a dream that they&#8217;ve spent 10 to 15 years of their lives working towards. \u00a0So, they continue to teach part-time for relatively low pay and participate in a job market that, for the most part, opens up only once a year.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the economics and politics of academic labor, read Keith Hoeller&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2007\/11\/13\/hoeller\" target=\"_blank\">The Future of the Contingent Faculty Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring the Chronicle of Higher Education offered an in-depth look at the number of highly educated people receiving federal aid. \u00a0Though, on average, they are still doing better than people without college degrees, these populations have not been immune to the recession. While I sensed an undercurrent of classism in the article (e.g., &#8220;how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,29,36,12498,34],"class_list":["post-47380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58329,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47380\/revisions\/58329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}