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...compromised even as the administration plans to cut the federal budget deficit in half by 2013. While the federal government must exercise more fiscal responsibility in the coming years, it serves no one to have this cost-cutting come at the expense of the country’s future labor force. Obama’s budget also proposes to make student loans available directly from the government, providing a much-needed alternative to the scandal-plagued student loan industry. It makes sense for a disinterested lender like the federal government to help out college students who might otherwise fall victim...
...Harvard should take simple measures short of official recognition to help support these students. The scope of cuts to the Harvard Budget continued to widen when announcements of cuts to staff, such as custodians and janitors, were made. While this move generated protests and rallies directed by the Student Labor Action Movement, and even a critical letter from the Cambridge City Council, since the University’s first priority must remain the education and research it can generate, these cuts were unfortunate, but necessary, evils. More troublingly, this crisis revealed a general lack of transparency in University finances. This...
...commonly assert that labor executed by the mind—reading, writing, analyzing, and criticizing—is fundamentally different from, and in some way superior to, labor executed by the hands. Why? A clever speech, a lively poem, and a novel scientific discovery all possess an inherent and self-secure beauty that demands no propping up through comparison. A well-built chair, a useful trinket, and a clean bathroom—these too are things of beauty and of humanity. Our own labors are not diminished by a broad extension of this franchise of value...
...Employee Free Choice Act The top priority for organized labor, this bill, which would make it easier for workers to form unions, failed to overcome a filibuster in 2007 by a vote of 51-48. Since then the Democrats have added seven seats, not counting the defection of former GOP Senator Arlen Spector. Franken has strongly declared his support for the measure. "Not only will I vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, I'll proudly co-sponsor it," he says on his website. A vote is expected later this year, and this is one where Franken could make...
...Abbas has to do is sit quietly while Netanyahu takes the heat from Washington - and from his own fractious coalition partners. The Cabinet right wingers want Netanyahu to stand firm against Obama's demands to halt the settlements, while Labor, in the words of Knesset member Ophir Pines, wants Netanyahu to face his "moment of truth." Says Pines: "The government needs to decide whether it prefers good relations with the American Administration or whether it prefers the illegal settlement in the territories. All of the talk about natural growth in the settlements is a bluff, and the Americans know that...