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...workers by bumping the state minimum wage to $6.50. And ACORN wasn’t done. In an innovative effort to protect local workers and local businesses, ACORN is now working on a campaign to require that big box retailers like WalMart pay their workers at least $10 per hour plus benefits. Through a series of successful campaigns, living wage activists in Illinois have changed the political culture in that state. “Collaboration is the mode of getting things done now,” says Madeleine Talbots, an ACORN organizer in Chicago. “It didn?...
...years, the federal government has tried to assist Amtrak’s bid to provide this travel need, but fares offered by the beleaguered passenger train service remain distressingly high. For travel times of over four hours, standard round-trip tickets between Boston and New York cost around $110, and for service via the crown jewel of the Amtrak network—namely, the “high-speed” Acela train—these prices rise to over $200 for trips that last only an hour less. JetBlue, on the other hand, offers round-trip tickets ranging from...
...laptops. During break times, the entrepreneurs networked and recharged their laptops. According to the project manager of Harvard Computing Society Matthew A. Gline ’06, who is also a Crimson editor, about 60 Harvard students and 50 MI students registered for the event. Additional speakers delivered half-hour seminars on topics relevant to start-ups including venture capital, finance, law, and intellectual property. Besides the symposium, other groups at Harvard promoting technological entrepreneurship, include the weekly lecture series sponsored by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). TECH’s “mini-MBA program?...
...Quickly, I found that people didn’t really want to hear my stories,” said Ashley Michalek, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross. The morning session of the conference focused on the issue of reintegration. The keynote addresses and the hour-long “small group re-entry exercises” allowed students to talk about their experiences and aimed at “bringing people together who had experienced that at the same time,” DiMauro said. DiMauro added that the conference was a unique way to help people...
...lengths to which Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is willing to go to rout competition. To make things abundantly clear, there are no stolen business plans or breaches of contract. We had no reason to take anything from HSA, and, if anything, we were too charitable as we worked 60-hour weeks without overtime pay, I donated my vehicle to be used as a delivery truck without reimbursement, and we racked up hundreds of minutes on our cell phones and did not seek reimbursement...