Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racial discrimination in the urban mortgage market of New York is more widespread than many have believed, according to Robert Schafer, associate professor of City Planning for the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies...
Schafer also said New York's usury laws which set the mortgage lending rate below the market interest rate hurt the people they are supposed to help--the "borrowers of limited means." The state is losing up to $2.4 billion that would have been invested in the state by banks if the interest rate had been higher. Usury laws decrease the amount of money available to lower-income borrowers and help corporate borrowers and purchasers of multi-family and other real estate...
Rosovsky's 12-page report outlines the strains that a small job market and the withdrawal of federal aid are placing on graduate education...
...severe reduction in the academic job market and its effect on attracting and educating graduate students...
Rosovsky concludes the report by raising issues for prolonged Faculty discussion about the future of GSAS. In view of the tight job market, Rosovsky suggests the Faculty consider whether graduate education should contain preparation for non-academic jobs, or whether the University needs to convince potential employers that scholarly learning is applicable to a large number of jobs...