Word: reichã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Democratic candidates, Reich has put the most emphasis on improving public post-secondary education in Massachusetts. After a year in which the University of Massachusetts system sustained an $11 million budget cut—reducing resources for UMass’ libraries, sports and its honors college—Reich??s oft-expressed commitment to quality higher education is more important than ever. His plans—to increase technical skill training, promote cooperative work programs and grant tuition breaks to students dedicated to public service professions like teaching and social services—are substantive, ambitious and forward...
...Reich??s talk, which was delivered in Harvard Hall 104, called for “bold action” by both the federal and state government to combat corporate wrongdoing...
...because the linkage fees would apply only to undergraduate housing, Cambridge neighbors Harvard and MIT—which both provide housing for nearly 100 percent of their undergraduates—would be affected very little by Reich??s proposal...
...same time, significant numbers of graduate students from both Harvard and MIT live off-campus. Under Reich??s plan neither university would be financially penalized for graduate students’ effects on the housing supply...
...Reich??s plan to increase affordable housing also includes plans to restore the Department of Housing and Community Development to cabinet level status, reform housing legislation, and put unused state land toward new public housing...