The majority of professors at U.S. colleges and universities are adjunct/part-time instructors. Besides not being eligible for benefits and limits placed on the number of classes they can teach (which negatively affects their earning capacity), wages for adjuncts are so far below the federal poverty level many qualify for food stamps, despite having Master's degrees & Ph.D.'s. Some schools, like Keystone College in La Plume, PA, only pay adjuncts once a month while paying full-time faculty and staff biweekly.
Adjuncts are required to complete the same work as their full-time counterparts, yet they are not paid a living wage or provided benefits.
Post-secondary institutions need to either pay adjuncts a living wage plus benefits or stop relying on adjunct labor altogether.