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Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick said the cap will especially hurt science programs, which he said require a higher minimum of courses to ground students in the discipline...
This movement serves to create an artificial rift over a social policy that the vast majority of us agree on: the need for a minimum wage...
Given those options, it seems difficult to justify campaigning for such an exorbitantly high wage for unskilled labor. Worse yet, the real tragedy is that the Living-wage campaign at Harvard and those like it elsewhere detract from the importance of the minimum wage—the institution towards which the efforts of groups like SLAM should be directed...
...minimum wage guarantees that workers are compensated in such a way that a basic quality of life is guaranteed to all of society’s members. This is both an economically and morally justifiable cause as everyone benefits from the alleviation of extreme poverty. However, that’s not to say that a luxurious lifestyle is the divine right of every person who simply has a job. On average, salaries and the lifestyles to which they correspond to are reflections of the characteristics associated with any particular line of work...
...argue that society shares the burden of elevating the quality of life of its lowest-earning members to some minimum threshold. However, to attempt to eliminate the spread of wages over the range of possible jobs and the skills, training, difficulty, and risk associated with those positions flies in the face of any logic. No group or organization can thoughtfully demand wages 50 percent higher than their current level and nearly double the fair wage as valued by the nation as a whole...