Word: campaign
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...Living Wage Campaign returned to prominence this week, as a rally last Friday and an endorsement by the Kennedy School of Government student government put more pressure on the University and its Living Wage taskforce. The University is expected to respond to janitorial demands for a $10-per-hour wage on Nov. 1. Yet if Harvard's past is any indication, the University will outsource yet another non-educational university function, and the Living Wage Campaign will be handed another defeat. And soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard...
Whoever wins that party's nomination would receive an estimated $12 million in federal matching funds for their campaign...
...United States Senate, but Carol Moseley-Braun and Jesse Helms are still battling it out. When the White House announced the nomination of Moseley-Braun as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand recently, the North Carolina senator jumped into the fray. Citing allegations, never proven, that Moseley-Braun used 1992 campaign funds for personal purchases, he demanded Wednesday that the IRS and Justice Department hand over "sensitive" documents about the former Illinois senator and her staff members. In exchange for the information, Helms would agree to hold hearings on the nomination, which he has repeatedly promised to block...
...nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many of the issues being bandied about by presidential hopefuls, from Bill Bradley's calls for better family benefits to Al Gore's environmentalism to John McCain's push...
...something seems awry with the picture of big business as the underdog, there is. Chamber president Thomas J. Donahue, who paints himself as a flip-side Cesar Chavez launching a grassroots campaign, argues that office-seekers will buckle to the onslaught of labor PAC money unless business catches up. However, an assessment of the 1998 election cycle by the Center for Responsive Politics, a middle-of-the-road think tank, found that businesses outspent labor unions 11 to 1 in federal campaign contributions. This underdog is no Chihuahua...