(academia) From Welfare to the Tenure Track

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 This excellent blog post by Stacey Patton, an Enterprise Reporter for The Chronicle for Higher Education, touches on many socially and emotionally weighted subjects:  

• hatred against people using welfare (conveniently ignoring the fact that the subject of the article had already paid into the system as a taxpayer)
• the stress of being without full-time employment
• hostility against single mothers 
• attitudes towards higher education
• women's appearance
• disrespect for people experiencing poverty
• the essential personal networks that help people to keep going when life becomes very difficult. 

"(Melissa) Bruninga-Matteau ended up relying on food stamps and Medicaid, barely scratching out a living for herself and her 17-year-old daughter. When she wasn’t grading papers, or worrying about keeping the lights on and the hot water running, she was trawling the Web in search of articles about the brutal academic job market and colleges’ use of adjuncts."

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/97-from-welfare-to-the-tenure-track

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