{"id":72911,"date":"2017-09-29T02:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/facing-poverty-academics-turn-to-sex-work-and-sleeping-in-cars"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:42:34","slug":"facing-poverty-academics-turn-to-sex-work-and-sleeping-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/facing-poverty-academics-turn-to-sex-work-and-sleeping-in-cars","title":{"rendered":"Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facing-poverty-academics-turn-to-sex-work-and-sleeping-in-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adjuncting has grown as funding for public universities has fallen by more than a quarter between 1990 and 2009. Private institutions also recognize the allure of part-time professors: generally they are cheaper than full-time staff, don\u2019t receive benefits or support for their personal research, and their hours can be carefully limited so they do not teach enough to qualify for health insurance.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/sep\/28\/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?CMP=fb_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/sep\/28\/adjunct-prof...?CMP=fb_gu<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjuncting has grown as funding for public universities has fallen by more than a quarter between 1990 and 2009. Private institutions also recognize the allure of part-time professors: generally they are cheaper than full-time staff, don\u2019t receive benefits or support for their personal research, and their hours can be carefully limited so they do not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1492,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-security","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}