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The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump’s America for France have arrived.
Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the institution’s “Safe Place for Science" program, which aims to woo researchers who have experienced or fear funding cuts under the Trump administration. AMU offers the promise of a brighter future in the sun-drenched Mediterranean port city.
While both France and the European Union have launched multimillion-euro plans to woo researchers across the pond since Trump assumed the U.S. presidency in January, AMU’s initiative was the first of its kind in the country — meaning the eight researchers who were welcomed are the first academic refugees planning to trade the United States for France.
We call it savings, not hoarding. But yeah. You need it. If you lose your job here, you’re fucked.
One illness and it’s all gone. House, kit and kaboodle.
To be fair, it’s really one serious illness.
Not really. Could be something entirely fine but requiring monthly medication. If you can’t afford that. You’re fuck.
We have people rationing insulin in this country for Christ sake.
Well, sure, if we’re gonna bring in the do you have insurance factor, then it becomes a whole different game. If you don’t have insurance, I don’t even know. Death is probably imminent…
There are plenty of people whose policies get cancelled or there insurance companies refuse to cover stuff.
I know. I was trying to say that if we take that into account, it gets a whole lot worse.
For a lot of people in this country it’s hording. But I get what you mean.