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Just like holidays, recessions are a time to reflect - and an to make the little changes that could make the future a better place than the past. Sure, we've all got New Year's resolutions of our own, but what good is exercising more going to do the economy? So herewith, 10 resolutions for the new economic year - made on behalf of the people who can actually carry them out. 1. SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt resolves to take the proper lesson from the Enron mess and commission his predecessor, the eternally vigilant Arthur Levitt, to go to work...
...past three years, a growing proportion of our community has rallied around the moral standard that Harvard workers deserve pay, benefits and working conditions that reflect their dignity as human beings. The huge outpouring of support for janitors on Nov. 30 demonstrated that the Harvard community is as mobilized as ever around the demand for a living wage for all Harvard employees. Thanks to the work of the more than a thousand people who attended this rally and previous ones like it, the crisis of poverty on Harvard’s campus is finally beginning to get the attention...
...HCECP is charged with the task of collecting data on employment conditions at Harvard, soliciting the views of the committee and presenting recommendations that “reflect a humane concern for the well-being of all the individuals who work here.” The data they have collected show that real wages of Harvard’s workers have fallen faster and farther than anyone but the workers themselves could have imagined. Hundreds of letters from students, workers, faculty and community members have argued that a living wage floor, a ban on outsourcing service work and protection...
...display of support for helping Harvard’s workers: our community demands justice, and will accept no less. This demand goes beyond a simple call for improvement in the lives of people who currently work at this school. It is a demand that Harvard’s actions reflect the principles and values of those who make up the Harvard community. Short-term political “fixes” that help to blunt the worst effects of Harvard’s employment and contracting policies are not acceptable alternatives to strong and principled solutions that actually eliminate poverty...
...must consider any proposal that does not clearly reflect these principles of justice with suspicion. So-called “pragmatic solutions” dampen our cause’s urgency so that the amazing coalition which has arisen to respond to this crisis will dissipate by the time that increases in the cost of living have driven workers back into poverty. Sure, there will be people willing to rebuild the coalition, and do whatever it takes to make Harvard confront the crisis of poverty again. But the administration has an opportunity now to show that committees and other...