If You Think College Tuition Is Insane, You Should See What They Pay Some Professors

It’s not just corporate America that is trying to get workers on the cheap. Turns out, despite tuition costs that are insane for you and me, half of all professors at universities are working for peanuts. Sometimes they’re even on food stamps. Meet some of them now.

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Brandon Weber

Apr 4, 2014

The professor at 3:40 gets to the heart of why this also matters to students themselves. And the heartbreaking story of the woman at 6:00 is what started waking people up to the problem.

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