Faculty on Food Stamps 1

[Justasimpleservant74]

WHAT???!!!!! Well, I can see how that can happen!

[MsGONZALEZ93]

I dont think you did the math. The cost in NYC doesn't do much for someone getting $73 for 2 people. I pay over $1000 rent. I dont buy junk. Making $1,200 is a lot in NC cause rent is lower there. My brother rented a small house and was paying $435. a month. It would $2,000 to $2,500 a month here in NYC. So I am not lucky to get $73 in fs for two people here in NYC where things cost a lot

[Niv6548]

Absolutely unacceptable! Also, not everyone wants a career for d money. Ppl r entitled to pursue whatever field fulfills them. Ck my videos out to c sim situation. Good luck prof Smith!!!

[FRSFreeStatePlus]

This must have to do with steep Education Budget cuts

[Rockynurse]

This is because there is a surplus of college professors in some areas. You should have evaluated your probable future scenario prior to getting your graduate degree. A masters in english or music is not worth 50k debt.

YOu should have gotten a ba in accounting you can make 40-60k starting where i live with full benefits and once you get the cpa license you can make 65-80k! Combine that with a masters in tax and we are talking closer to 100k.

[jenlinc2006]

Marc I like what you are doing.  The thing is though, I looked this guy up and he did not even have a phd. Would it not be a better point if these interviewees had the highest credentials?

[MsGONZALEZ93]

That $73 is monthly yeah that figured $73 is enough to help two people.

[MsGONZALEZ93]

My husband worked more than 16 yrs in the same local union ...now laid off and each day calling to see if there is work and looking in newspaper and so many jobsites...you know monster and even craigslist.  But employment check pays rent and most bills. We still fall short. You talking making $50,000 ........

my husband made $39,000 and we did our best without foodstamps but I talked my husband into foodstamps and they give $73 for two people .

[MultiSmartass1]

@MsGONZALEZ93 I do the craigslist thing too except I never made $50,000 as a writer.

You got to be kidding though about the food stamps. $73 for two people? That's over $30 per person. I sure hope you get this weekly and not monthly.

I guess you can tell I have never been on food stamps.

[donttelluseenme]

@MsGONZALEZ93 LOL your lucky I get 40.00 in stamps here in NC and have a child. I work at a fast food restraunt making only 1,200 a month so you are really lucky to get what you do..

[MediocrityAbounds]

@donttelluseenme

it's restaurant .... do you need post graduate credentials to work in a fast food restaurant? just wondering

[spikefivefivefive]

This is why you should consider the future demand for your major carefully before committing to it.

There are no guarantees.

[chrisolava112066]

Andy Smith, Thank you for serving us the public, for educating. Thank you, for toughing it out.

[Sforeczka]

Altha2008-

Anybody offering to sell you a WIC card is a crook. WIC stands for Women, Infants, and Children, and it is a limited food support program for pregnant women and children under five. It varies from state to state, but WIC recipients usually get checks and are limited to very specific foods (cheese,.milk, eggs, juice, peanut butter, dry beans, and cereal) in limited amounts.

For my part, I'm trying to figure out how to get dental care for a lost crown. May have to lose the tooth.

[altha2008]

this is not true

I been out of work for 5 months because of medical reasons got parkinson diease

they told me that I did not qualify for food staps the only income I get is 800 a month form disability insurance

[engineerjatt]

GOOD POST!!!

I saw my college teacher working part time as part time cashier at local burger place.......

[JTPNYC95]

Now I know why i got a c and a hostile attitude from a professor I would eat my credit card purchased diner meals infront of.

I thought I was just eating lunch during an internship and getting educated.

[Gavin2Becentie]

i always wanted a food stamp dollar or 10 dollars.

[josephdupont]

I am for food stamps. but against using this resource for junk food.. Why I don't want to pay for your medical bills caused by junk food.

[donttelluseenme]

@josephdupont Maybe YOU souldnt eat junk food either. Your health is more important then someone on stamps. Thats the trouble people trying to stick their nose in someone elses fridge. Ill buy a bag of chips for my kids lunchs, Ill buy cookies as an evening treat for my children just the same as you. Please keep your nose in your own fridgeand on your own table. I work and get a very small amount 40.00 a month in stamps and if I want to treat my children to a donut or a cup cake I will!

[Sforeczka]

People in general are not aware of what food support programs (food stamps) are really all about. Food stamps and WIC are USDA programs designed to support the agricultural market, not poor people.

Why are people allowed to buy "junk food" with food stamps? Because junk food is made from agricultural products from which Agribusiness such as ADM and Monsanto, profit. In my state you can buy soda with food stamps. Soda is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

[altha2008]

not the farmers that for sure, farmers get little unless they are the big corperate jobs

[Sforeczka]

I wonder if any of the critics of food stamp recipients have ever had to use them.

When you apply, you are humiliated by the social service worker, who assume that you are stupid, lazy, and undeserving.

When you use them, you are humiliated by cashiers and customers who assume that you are stupid, lazy, and undeserving. And if you are wearing one simple gold band on a finger, that is used as evidence that you have money and taking the system.

[jeffw1267]

Maybe it depends on where you use the food stamps. In a poor neighborhood the cashiers won't think anything of it.

I actually could qualify for food stamps. I've learned to live on very little money. And most of the foods I buy (organic) I could use food stamps to buy! Three pounds of oats are $2.75. A three-pound bag of apples are $3.89. Organic bananas: $.75/pound.

You can eat well for cheap, if you want to.

[altha2008]

worked all my life sometime 2 jobs

now 47 got parkinson disease, they told me that I have to much for food stamps

now this one person who is on ssi he said that he knew someone that would sell me his for 50 cents on the dollar

that I could buy 100 dollars woth of food for 50 dollars and that I could even buy his wic card too

[TimmyHaag]

I went out to buy some french fries at a quick stop to go with my birth day dinner last night.

The woman in front of me made it more than clear that she was toned and had the munchies and proceeded to buy $219+ in junk food. The cashier and I got into a conversation about how amazing the food stamp system is.

After witnessing that, I am on my way to applying for food stamps.

I am an Iraq vet and I am getting a lot less than I expected to to go back to college after going to war in Iraq.

[brideodracula]

What people aren't necessarily getting here is that he ONLY HAS AN M.A., which is NOT the terminal degree in English. Thus, why does he expect a tenure track job?

[niriafanorev]

I never heard anything implying that he EXPECTS a tenure-track job. He probably "expects" not to be on food stamps after paying exorbitant amounts in order to obtain a postgraduate degree.

[lala234lala]

i strongly support better treatment of adjunct faculty and graduate students, but the elitism in this video is ridiculous. the interviewee seems to be too good for a 'normal' job and is entitled to a 'middle-class' academic lifestyle. there is nothing wrong with wanting an academic job, but the way in which his desires seemed to be wrapped in his perception of his social status (not wanting to be seen with the common folk bagging groceries) is elitist.

[SpeedingStudent]

He went to school for years, and paid his dues.

I work a crappy retail job, and even I agree with him. One day, i will go to grad school for my PhD in Psychology, but that will be several years from now.

Great video, very interesting...and angering at the same time.

[lala234lala]

I agree; he completed a degree program, but your point seems to be that every person who completes a degree program is entitled to a tenure track faculty position. These positions just don't exist in many disciplines. Schools know it, but they often don't tell their students. Students often know it, but they don't think they will be the one left 'bagging groceries'.

There is no reason a doctoral student is these field should not understand how difficult it is to get a tenure track job.

[lala234lala]

'is these field' should be 'in these fields'

[SpeedingStudent]

I cannot disagree with anything you just said.

Also, people need to stop feeling "entitled". Just because you get a PhD in English literature does not mean you will get a tenure position at Yale.

However, the lack of prospects for some of these grad students is truly frightneing.

A higher degree should help one ESCAPE a future of bagging groceries for welfare mothers! That is the whole damned point: freedom from the lifestyle of the working poor (like I am currently living)...

[tigereye1964]

How do you know it was her car and the gift wasn't a purse? Not to imply abuse doesn't occur of course, but this incidental evidence is hardly bullet proof.

[Americo1974]

Last night I saw a woman paying with food stamps (she had a $1,500.00 purse and was driving a new BMW) Totally abuse of the system.

[FatalError2319]

I saw a guy buy two $50 bags of shrimp with his food stamp card, then he pulled out a wad of bills to pay for some wine. I'm working two jobs and going to school full time on Easy Mac and water.

[emncaity]

Are you saying that this is typical? Is there such a thing as a system that doesn't have at least a few abusers?

[FatalError2319]

This is typical, yes.

[emncaity]

So, by "typical," you must mean that some clear majority of food stamp recipients actually have cash to spend, that they spend it on luxury items and high-end foods, etc.?

[FatalError2319]

Ok I kid you not, and you probably won't believe me, but today I sold $68 in lobster tails to some lady that paid in food stamps. Now it isn't THAT typical, but the few times people do this, it is enough to make your blood boil.

[emncaity]

Totally believe you, and of course it's infuriating. I'm just pointing out the difference between anecdotal evidence and real statistical evidence, and also the n-group "noticing" factor that occurs in such real-world situations (the tendency to remember the $68 in lobster tails, but not the person who comes through with food stamps for less luxurious items).

But yeah...where it happens, anybody can see why that would get a person's attention and piss him off.

[emncaity]

Part of the problem, I think, is that many (most?) states won't let you carry over money from one month to the next, so you have people trying to spend up unused money at the end of the month (or their payment period).

[bookishmuch]

I was an adjunct for seventeen years, while of course working any other full-time jobs I could get. One problem with trying to making life better for the adjuncts is that at least half the graduate departments in the humanities need to close immediately - maybe two-thirds. The supply of willing grad students needs to correlate much more closely with available tenure-track openings. Then there would be little opportunity for people to spend ten years on this kind of "track."

[lala234lala]

exactly

[TOILETLOG]

so the college guy has to bag fucking groceries, like a lot of people have. perhaps that worthless degree in "black studies" or "19th century feminism" is to blame for the lack of money?

[jenkinscrowe]

Yeah. And what was I thinking getting a degree in a useless, archaic field like "English"? Boy, was I asking for it!

[phud2001]

I have offered to forgo my pay raise so adjunct pay could be raised, but as they say, it takes a village....not that TT pay is great, but we should all be in this together.

So, how do we change this????

[declantynan]

The American system wants slaves so if you're not a slave or a unit of consumer forget it.

[piotrelavadore]

hhhahha so ein scheiß bombe

[SCOOTERBALLUSA]

Blame the democrat and republican diehards allowing this to happen. The congress did'nt legislate laws to protect the american institutions...

[zhara42]

Q. How do you get an adjunct off your front porch?

A. Pay for the pizza.

That joke, btw, is me crying with you - I work in higher ed, too. TBR school, no less.

[jenkinscrowe]

The email list my uni runs for graduate students in English just posted, under Job Opportunities, a notice that one of the local Pizza Huts is hiring and that "interest forms" are available in the departmental office.

I'm 43 years old. I did not move 450 miles away from my hometown and enter a PhD program because I wanted a job I could have gotten out of high school.

[lala234lala]

what job do you want? do you know how many applicants apply for each tenure-track position? do you know how the median time to a tenure track position? a PhD is no guarantee of a decent job.

schools have to be more forthcoming with these information, but you have a responsibility to be informed as well. if you are not comfortable with the job prospects, get out now!

[jenkinscrowe]

I did get out.

[Arcane587]

As a student in TN, this hits close to home. My adjunct professors often talk about the horrid pay they get. It's sad...these people work so hard to get their degrees then get horrible pay :(.

[adjuncttoiler]

This is worth watching.