Graduate student-workers come to MIT to conduct research and teach for a better world. We want to understand how things work and are passionate about research. But we also generate billions of dollars for MIT. MIT as an institution has always reaped financial benefits from our work: its funding and worldwide reputation as a top research university follow from the experiments we run and the code we write. However, while MIT’s net assets exploded from $24 billion in 2020 to over $36 billion in 2021, graduate student-workers remain as we always have: severely rent-burdened by U.S. federal standards, paying on average 55% of our stipends in rent due to policies of MIT’s administration.