Word: budgeter
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...said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—a major contribution, considering the $77 million round of budget cuts this spring. And though it was promised pre-recession, Chetty said the FAS commitment has not changed. LEAP aims to become the economic department’s laboratory: economic experiments—given short shrift by some because of their relatively high costs—could provide substantive data...
Over the summer, the MBTA announced that it was considering fare hikes and service reductions to help eliminate the agency's $180 million budget deficit and $5 billion debt. But Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78 has suspended planned public discussions on the service changes, and it's unclear if the proposals are still on the table...
Harvard club teams are struggling to find adequate practice space in light of the Malkin Athletic Center’s reduced operating hours, a recent impact of the University’s widespread budget-cutting initiatives. The MAC’s weekday closing hours have been tightened from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m., creating a scarcity of room availability for student sport and recreation groups, primarily in booking the MAC’s Mezzanine room. “It has always been tight and it’s always a hotly-contested battle for space,” President...
...hour allocations, she said. “They did e-mail us prior to the beginning of the semester that they would probably be limiting our weekly schedule to 6 hours,” she said. Other employers are taking similar courses of action to deal with constricted budgets. Ilya E. Luvish, the production services coordinator at Sanders Theater who handles hiring each semester, said that Sanders decided to reduce the number of hours each student could work. “We’re not cutting back on how many people we hire, but we are cutting back...
...much does the bill cost, and will it add to the deficit? In a press release accompanying the release of the bill, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus says the legislation would cost $856 billion over 10 years and would not increase the deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which put the bill's total cost at a lower $774 billion, says the bill would actually reduce the deficit by $49 billion between 2010 and 2019. (Watch an abridged version of President Obama's health-care speech before Congress...