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...fact, Harvard is below the wage average set by other Boston-area universities, and it will continue to be even after the adopted recommendations are implemented. At other institutions, the standard is $14 an hour at minimum for janitors, a standard Harvard does not approach with a wage hike to $10.83 which lacks a mechanism to ensure that real wages will be maintained. With wages below $15 an hour, it is the norm for workers to have two full-time jobs or more if they wish to raise families. In light of these numbers, the only principle Harvard can honestly...
...President insists Kennedy's idea would be a tax increase. Now, I have to confess I'm not so good at math, but how is repealing a tax cut before it goes into effect a tax hike? Bush argues that people are planning on having that extra money, so taking it away would effectively be a hike. Anyone else smell fuzzy math...
...questions whether HCECP takes its central claim seriously. I suspect the report’s idiotic instrumental justification of a pay hike was simply a way of letting HCECP say what it wanted to say all along without resting its case on the naked assertion of elusive moral precepts. It seems that at the heart of this report lies a standard theme of the left’s loony repertoire: since the rich (and Harvard is indeed rich) have so many dollars, they had better cough up a few (million) to help save the world. Rejecting the report?...
...Finance Ministry did not change of its own accord. Likud Party lawmaker Avraham Hirshson and his aide Michael Handelsman went to Israel's Supreme Court to force the government to pay survivors the same amount as Germany. The court ordered a 24% hike in payments. "They've always treated survivors as nothing more than a nuisance," says Handelsman. Even now, getting money can be expensive. Pinto insists that people don't need a lawyer to make a claim, but many hire one to cut through the bureaucracy. The lawyers typically take a commission equal to six months of compensation payments...
...implemented, the recommendations will result in a significant pay hike for both directly employed and subcontracted employees...