Nearly 1 in 10 hosts who rent out their apartments, homes and spaces on Airbnb are teachers, according to a new survey by the company, another possible indicator of the hardship facing members of the profession as wages fall or stagnate compared with other college graduates. Airbnb said that results of its survey, in which hosts voluntarily reported information about their professions, indicated 45,000 active hosts on the service were teachers. Another 30,000 had teachers living in their households. As the Atlantic noted: `Many of these 45,000-plus educators in the U.S. are presumably using Airbnb to supplement their regular income, as teachers struggle with stagnant, if not declining, pay....
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