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...workers on the union’s bargaining team who know that their families need more than an extra dollar and change to get by. Most currently earn less than $10 per hour. These wage and benefit proposals degrade the value of janitors’ work and insult their families??€™ needs. Harvard’s intransigence at the bargaining table is so offensive that Edgar Barrios, a Guatemalan immigrant worker at the Business School who is on Local 254’s negotiating team told us, “The management team has no ethics. If they were...

Author: By Anna Falicov and Roona Ray, S | Title: Bringing The Problem Home | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...percent above the lowest. The difficulties become even clearer when one considers the studies’ differing methodologies and mutually contradictory assumptions. Some studies state that rent should never require more than 30 percent of income, and that the cheapest 40 percent of housing will always be inadequate for families??€™ essential needs. Others assume that it is enough for workers to make a certain percentage of the median family income, regardless of how high or low that might be. Still more declare that wages should be high enough to prevent workers from needing government assistance—though...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Nonsense on Stilts | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

Galluccio will be remembered for his consensus-building and, in chairing the School Committee, working to pass the recent plan to integrate Cambridge schools on the basis of families??€™ economic status, his colleagues said...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sullivan Wins In Quick Vote For City Mayor | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

...Department of Education (DOE) awards Pell grants to about 4 million undergraduates each year, based on their families??€™ financial need and the cost of the colleges they attend...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Increase Pell Grant Funding | 10/16/2001 | See Source »

Tucked amidst his repeated reminders to preserve diversity was an eye-catching proposal—a $1 million contribution toward scholarships for victims’ families??€”the largest University donation outside of New York...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Campus Voice | 10/14/2001 | See Source »

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