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...foreign balance has dived over recent years. There's no easy solution in sight. Higher interest rates would reduce inflation, but could at the same time greatly endanger the already stretched household budgets of Spanish consumers. Some 90% of Spanish mortgages are variable-rate loans, so an interest hike would cause real pain. Squaring that circle would be a difficult task for any central bank. But the European Central Bank in Frankfurt can't worry too much about cooling down Spain when the economies of much of the rest of the euro zone - witness Germany and Italy - are in cryonic...
...money over night (currently, it's 5%), but that trickles down to the consumer. The cost of buying a house or a car goes up, as does the price you pay for carrying a credit card balance from one month to the next. For example, thanks largely to Fed hikes, the average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage currently stands at 6.6%, according to Freddie Mac, up from 5.7% this time last year. Folks who have adjustable-rate mortgages tend to be especially hard hit, as payments balloon ? and more defaults follow. On the other hand...
...many undergraduates—serve as volunteer tutors.Full-time HUDS workers earn, on average, more than $31,000 a year plus benefits valued at approximately $13,000. The average hourly wage for campus members of HERE increased 20 percent between September 2000 and September 2005, including a 4.3 percent hike last year. Their median hourly wage increased 17.7 percent during the same period. Harvard pays higher wages to members of HERE than their unionized colleagues and non-union peers receive at virtually all other academic and private employers in the area, including the M.I.T. and hotels in greater Boston.One result...
...Buck told The Crimson at the time that the University planned “to use a substantial portion of the money gained from increased tuition as free unrestricted funds for loans and scholarships for needy students.”Other uses for the money raised through the tuition hike included increasing faculty salaries, offsetting rising costs and University expenses, and allowing all students to use all of Harvard’s athletic facilities and attend sporting events at Soldiers Field or Harvard’s Indoor Athletic Building whenever they chose.Radcliffe students, unlike those at Harvard, did not receive...
Returning to our dining hall workers the option of summer employment is one step of many that this College can take to improve the lives of a group of people who improve ours every day. On the heels of a wage hike to Harvard’s custodial workers, it would only be fair that HUDS workers would also benefit from a commensurate increase in wages. In addition to all the justifications advanced for the pay raise for custodial workers—soaring cost of living in the Boston areas, higher wages at peer institutions—providing dining hall...