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...more important question to ask is with what force PSLM is operating. A few weeks ago, President Lawrence H. Summers approved an unprecedented wage hike, largely because last year’s unlawful occupation of Mass. Hall prompted the formation of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies...
Early this month Acting Governor Jane Swift fired two MTA board members, Christy Mihos and Jordan Levy, after they voted down a toll hike that would have helped pay for the growing cost...
...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?...