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...Health Alliance, the Center for Families, and the North Cambridge Crime Task Force. CHA, a Harvard-affiliated public hospital system that operates in more than 20 locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area, had its funding cut by $55 million. The Alliance, which had begun to lay off 9 percent of its workforce before the budgetary reduction, is trying to find new ways of financing its activities. Patrick’s fiscal action plan reduces the funding for North Cambridge Crime Task Force by roughly 25 percent, but the program will be able to survive in its current form...
...pledge, Harvard will contribute $1.50 toward renewable energy projects on campus. The pledge rates of each Harvard school will help determine the location of the funded project, and a contest between undergraduate houses will award points for the Green Cup. Dunster House is currently in the lead with 49 percent of its residents having already signed the pledge. “It’s a great way to get your House excited to talk about sustainability,” said Karen A. McKinnon ’10, an Environmental Action Committee co-executive. But McKinnon said what people pledge...
...family, the choice is clear: our heritage or Obama. Even if the two are not mutually exclusive, as I and 57 percent of Jews believe, Jews must at least be conscious of what an Obama administration means both for our past and for our future. I hope that Silverman’s blame does not fall on us, but even if it does, we should take it in stride...
Work Force is a nationally lauded high school dropout prevention program based in Cambridge that offers low-income teens mentoring, college preparation, and scholarships. In 2008, it served 130 students, leading to a high school graduation rate of 100 percent and a college matriculation rate of 92 percent. But that wasn’t enough to save it from the chopping block. The program just had its state earmark of $150,000 cut in half, and this is only one of a series of cuts to vital social services in the Cambridge community. Budget decreases for Work Force have been...
...college affordability. At the institutional level, colleges and universities can take a number of steps to enhance affordability. Schools with merit-based financial aid or athletic scholarship programs should consider scaling these initiatives back in favor of need-based solutions, which would enhance accessibility. At public universities, only 44 percent of financial aid money goes to need-based programs; it is imperative that this share increase during a recession in order to make continued college attendance possible for families hit by the downturn. In addition to refocusing their financial aid programs on accessibility and affordability, colleges and universities should also...