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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is academia suffering from adjunctivitis? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet

Updated: February 6 2014,
Author: barrel fan
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Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities.