The Republican tax plan could financially devastate graduate students

Kathleen Farley, a graduate student in biological sciences, paid $2,824 in taxes on her stipend of $25,969 last year. If President Donald Trump’s tax plan takes effect, she calculates that she’ll have to pay $5,174 — almost double what she’s paying now. The unexpected financial burden might force her to drop out of Rutgers University-Newark. “If you walk away, you have nothing,” she says. “I would have just lost four years.”
“If you walk away