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...procedures that are transparent, principled and fair. In this spirit, HCECP should invite Hoxby to rejoin the committee after it has acted to improve its flawed process. Her rejoining HCECP would go a long way to restore the committee’s original promise of bringing Harvard to a consensus on wages. We believe that reaching such a consensus is possible. But it remains for HCECP to turn that possibility into a practical reality...
...sole dissenting vote in the Senate came from Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold. "This bill does not strike the right balance between empowering law enforcement and protecting civil liberties," he argued. But while Feingold?s anxieties were echoed among some civil libertarian groups, consensus for the bill is very strong, including among traditionally left-leaning senators like California?s Dianne Feinstein and Patrick Leahy of Vermont...
...members continue to hear the opinions of both sides. Of course, it might just be that when she writes that “the committee has not heard one presenter who has made a positive case against the living wage,” she suspects what a broad consensus of workers, students, faculty and alumni have known for quite some time: opponents are hard-pressed to make “a positive case” against the reality that the world’s richest University can and must pay more than poverty wages to all its workers...
...take what I hear and winnow it down and present it to her in terms so that she has some sense of consensus about individual people,” Linsky says...
...We’ve always said that it’s been shown that there’s a community consensus on the living wage,” Ray said. “I just hope that Hoxby’s decision doesn’t detract from the dialogue on campus...