Economist: Grad students aren't workers, they're costly students
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-10
Economist Afinetheorem pushes back on the popular claim that grad students "make this place run" and count as workers, calling it untrue: PhD students are students — and extremely costly ones for the university.
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