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At Pitt, CMU, ‘We’re workers when they want us to be, but then we’re graduate students when they don’t want to pay us’

Whether it’s switching from grocery shopping at Giant Eagle to the less-expensive Aldi or putting off dreams of homeownership, graduate students said the penny-pinching that’s required forces them to make daily sacrifices. And their options for supplementing their income can be limited: Some departments prohibit or discourage students from working jobs outside of the university during their appointments.

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