Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 975-977

Only 24 per cent of university and college faculty are now tenured or tenure-track.

Much of the coverage has focused on the sub-poverty wages of adjunct faculty, their lack of job security and the growing legions of unemployed and under-employed PhDs.

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Fewer professors and fewer qualified - or even paid - teaching assistants will be required in higher education's New Order.

The Neoliberal Assault on Academia

Al Jazeera English

By Tarak Barkawi

AlterNet

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MADRID, April 24 (Reuters) - More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro zone's fourth biggest economy to 27.2 percent, the highest since records began in the 1970s.
Spain Unemployment Hits Record High On Recession Fears
Reuters  | 
By Paul Day
Huffpost
Posted: 04/25/2013

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 [W]e are indeed creating a permanent class of jobless Americans.

And let’s be clear: this is a policy decision.
The Jobless Trap
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 21, 2013

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