Word: pays
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...hour. This amounts to $16,300 to $18,100 per year, which is hardly enough to support one person, never mind a family, living in Cambridge. Most of these men and women have to work two or three other jobs simply to put food on the table and pay their bills...
That Harvard does not currently pay its employees enough to live in the community where they work--where many, indeed, were born and raised--reveals its blatant disregard for the people of Cambridge. We would do well to remember that, given its status as a non-profit institution, Harvard is not required by law to pay taxes...
...wonder how different life in Cambridge would be--how much better, for instance, the public school and housing systems would be--if Harvard had to pay annual taxes commensurate with its vast financial and property holdings. Most disturbing, however, is the fact that a solid majority of the lowest paid workers at Harvard are people of color, immigrants and parents. These men and women are struggling to make ends meet in a society that continues to dismantle basic guarantees of justice and decency even as the rich and the poor grow increasingly unrecognizable to each other. At Harvard, where words...
...show's announcers charged that one percent of Nike's annual advertising budget is enough to pay all of the company's workers in Indonesia a living wage...
Rather than pay about 30 cents per minute during the day with Harvard's normal phone rates, Ebbel signed up for a plan that at $50 per month gives him 500 minutes of calling time. The plan allows him to call anywhere in the country--even to his home state of California...