what mean independent scholar? someone sponsored by CIA? or so called foundations?
In every country it is a simple fact that government employer paid much better than most people that is why the governor of Wisconsin send police out today try to catch a democrat senate in order to pass the law to cut off some benefits for the teachers
There are 11 million undocumented immigration in US doing most dangerous and hard work for us, I do not think we calculated their income in the average Americans income.
In USA anyone take money from other country and do some research to attach US will be send to jail as spy.