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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: A Tale of Two Campaigns | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: A Tale of Two Campaigns | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: A Tale of Two Campaigns | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Models Hit the Runway | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing Off the Hook | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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