The university has noted, however, that doctoral students receive minimum annual stipends of $30,000, while “a tuition fellowship or other grants fully cover the annual tuition of $39,800.”
Students also receive free health care. The university estimates that over the course of a six-year doctoral program, Yale’s support equates to almost $375,000 for a single student.
Whatever the value of the package is, it’s irrelevant if you don’t look at it in real terms. Can they afford to live in New Haven on 30K a year? Probably not.
But ridiculing them for calling what they are doing a “hunger” strike doesn’t solve the problem, or even address it in any way. So, 
Free healthcare - 39k tuition and 30k a year
so that makes 69k + healthcare
they can always drop the fuck out
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$30K to live on + healthcare + free tuition = $30K to live on, no medical bills, and lower student loan repayment
Yeah. And if tuition there was 100k a year, they would claim the package was worth 130k + healthcare. They would STILL only have 30k to live on. People who live places where you can get by on 30k don’t get that in some places, 30k is poverty wages. It’s all relative to the cost of living where you live. That’s why all these median income, poverty line, etc calculations are basically bullshit.
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3 of them in same digs is easy doable
lotsa folks living on 30k
WITHOUT FUCKING HEALTHCARE AND FREE EDUCATION
Not all people in grad school are 20 somethings. Plenty of people in grad school have kids, etc. That’s absurd. That’s like saying all people who work in minimum wage jobs are teenagers.
Liveable wage calculations are generally done by city because it varies by area and includes local cost of living.
Yeah and in some areas you can do that comfortably but does that make it right?
They aren’t done by city when calculating for things like what is considered poverty level (which is used to determine lots of other things), what the federal minimum wage is, whether or not a college student is entitled to need-based scholarships, or whether a person is entitled to subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Wages aren’t calculated by city when the entire California State University system negotiates lecturer contracts. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Flannel had a great meme about this…