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...committee may be right: Higher wages might serve Harvard well by increasing efficiency and decreasing turnover. Had the report concentrated its efforts on such a proposal, presenting compelling evidence and argument to demonstrate the benefits of an “efficiency wage,” then Harvard’s refusal to pay higher wages would truly have been exposed as inexcusable—hurtful to the University as well as to its workers...
...workers, because they must compete for Harvard’s contracts, have less bargaining power than direct employees. If parity were implemented, in-house unions would be protected by Harvard’s deep pocket, almost entirely insulated from external market pressures. And presumably there’s an argument to be made that the proper negotiating balance between capital and labor is one that forbids price competition through outsourcing. Yet the HCECP never makes that argument, nor does it claim that low wages are bad in themselves—instead, it relies only on vague references to the University?...
...greatest breakthroughs in science have come from serendipitous discoveries in initially unrelated lines of research. Research that at first appears to have little short-term benefit can yield incredible gains over time. Additionally, the Smithsonian Observatory’s superb record over the last century supports the argument that the observatory’s independence is part of the reason for its continued success...
...economy around (and, he'd better hope, the budget under control), which still looks like plenty of time. But House and Senate GOPers have to defend Bush's fiscal policy this summer and fall. The recovery is going to have to hurry to be noticeable by then - and the argument for tax cuts (which always seem to return more money to those who make more) has never polled well when times are tough...
...advised and unpopular as it may be, I'm going to venture just such an argument. In any tragedy, we do what we can, and one way we help the families of the victims is to give them money. But are we doing this fairly...