PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

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As inflation rates soar, new data on the finances of US graduate students spark calls for action.

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  1. Chris Woolston

    1. Chris Woolston is a freelance writer in Billings, Montana.

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Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the United States, according to data collected by two PhD students.

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Nature 605, 775-777 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01392-w

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