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Elder care wealth is extracted using service companies as services. E.g. they hire their for-profit cleaning service for astronomical money while their non-profit elderly care facility claims to make no profits. Since the service takes the money and the elder care facility is paying for a known cost (cleaning, supplies, whatever) then they can still claim to be non-profit. The non-profit pays no taxes so they aren't doubly taxed either.

This is a widely known scheme in the north east, combined with the fact that when it's inspection time to see staff levels the business owners mysteriously are given a heads up before they show up so they can make sure just enough staff is there. They routinely understaff these facilities because each person there is just another wage to pay.

Bottom line, for profit healthcare is appalling and corruption is everywhere.

Hey there and solidarity from the disability care world. We need a damn union, I heard like 25% of the millenials are in human care positions, so I'm hoping we do something soon, we got the people for it.

everywhere there are professors.

It's very common in the US.

https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ucla-professor-says-hes-homeless-due-to-low-pay/amp/

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/homeless-professor-who-lives-her-car

https://junctrebellion.wordpress.com/

I don't know, tenure track professors doing research, probably not. But the cost of living here is kind of insane. If we didn't have a double income, my wife would have to take a pretty substantial downgrade in where she lives. Cost of living is getting out of hand everywhere regardless, and the point still stands I think.

Community college professor here. I'm lucky enough to be tenured at this point, but when I started teaching, I was making just enough money such that if I had been paying the going rate for rent edit: and health insurance, I would have been losing about $100/month, before taking into account other expenses like food (~~or health insurance~~ or gas or utilities...) (edit: I went back and checked numbers, my memory was a little off). And that was with me teaching 75% at two different schools (so, a total of about 24 units per term when full-time is usually 16 units per term)

I was privileged enough to be able to live with family while I pursued a full-time position and extra work, but many are not so lucky.

So, yeah, college professors are drastically underpaid, on par with K-12 teachers

There was an article about a UCLA professor recently.

Everywhere unless they're tenured