Universities are also to blame for the GOP’s ‘grad student tax’

Graduate students are worried. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would tax our tuition waivers from universities. For many of us, this would drastically inflate our tax obligations… For good reason, the debate over this proposal has thus far focused on Republicans in Congress. University administrations have urged graduate students to join them in lobbying against the change… It’s not the norm for PhD students to pay any tuition.

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by Sarah Arveson, The Washington Post.

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