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These tuition hikes made UMass-Amherst the second most expensive of the six New England public university systems. After the recent tuition drops, the Amherst campus is now in fifth place, and mandatory tuition and fee costs on the Amherst and Boston campuses will be at their lowest since the 1992-93 academic year...
...Cambridge transfer tax, according to Thompson's office, would ask for a fee of one percent on sales in excess of $300,000. This fee would be paid to the City of Cambridge and allocated to the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund...
...assault on her and for unpaid overtime. "The managers did not treat us like human beings," she says, adding that she would not have gone to Saipan if she had known what the working conditions were like. But having borrowed the equivalent of $2,800 to pay the "recruitment fee" in China, she cannot return until she has earned at least enough to pay off the loan. "That comes close to the definition of indentured labor," says Allen Stayman, insular-affairs director at the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is pressuring the Northern Marianas to clean up sweatshop practices...
Abuses of contract workers are widespread. A recent scam involved offering Bangladeshis jobs supposedly paying $1,000 a month as security guards on Saipan (shamelessly described as "a train ride away from Los Angeles"). A $6,000 recruitment fee was demanded. "When we arrived here, suddenly there was no job," says Mohamed Feroj Ahmed, one of more than 100 Bangladeshis who wander the island, indebted but unable to find more than day labor. When told of the Bangladeshis' plight, Congressman Miller said, "How low do you have to get to rip off a Bangladeshi...
...Iger is calling for a reverse. He wants the affiliates to kick in for their pigskin privileges. "We expect owners to step up and help us pay for it," he says. Iger might be asking you for a couple of nickels too. ESPN, which charges cable operators a program fee for each subscriber, will probably raise rates. The cable operators will hand off those increases to you know...