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...standard, though student support helped janitors and dining hall workers get a serious raise that year and the committee appointed to study the question recommended “compensation levels that significantly contribute to ensuring that Harvard’s workers and their families enjoy at least a minimally decent standard of living...
Over the past four years, the wages of Harvard janitors and other low paid employees have fallen further and further short of that “minimally decent standard,” as the cost of living in Boston has shot up and the university’s endowment has exploded...
...with arguments against the very concept of a living wage. Perhaps $20 per hour is the right living wage rate, perhaps it is wrong, but if Harvard’s janitors are indeed members of the University community, they must be accorded a wage that can provide them with decent living standards...
...later write that living wages are flawed because they calculate “the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands.” Yes, that is the very point of a living wage. People without marketable skills deserve to have decent lifestyles, even if the free market would compensate them at a wage rate that could not support them. Either you believe that the free market always leads to fair wages, or you believe that free-market wages...
...settle on a mutually agreeable number—one that reflects the fair price of labor—we do not support SLAM’s calls for a $20 living wage. The actual numbers put to living wage demands are based on estimates of the cost of a decent lifestyle in Boston. Living wage advocates are defining “decent” far too generously. According to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the 2005 median income for a family of four in the Boston metro area is $82,600. This number is slightly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau?...