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...stand a chance of surviving in the local economy. Affordable housing is generally defined as housing that costs less than 30 percent of income, so a subcontracted dining hall worker making $6 an hour and raising one child would be looking to pay about $288 per month in rent. Unfortunately, the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in our area is actually $1,400 per month. Even if this worker took a second full-time job and was lucky enough to find the cheapest possible housing, rent would still amount to nearly half of the pre-tax income...
This example is hardly exaggerated. Today, 37,000 Boston tenants spend at least 60 percent of their income on rent. Some have lost their homes entirely. A single Cambridge elementary school has reported the disappearance of 700 students from its rolls in recent years--these are children whose families were forced to leave the city because they couldn't pay their rent. Studies show that their parents would have needed wages of $12 to $30 an hour to remain in the city, wages they wouldn't receive if they were cleaning the office of President Rudenstine. When talking to people...
...endorsements?) and yet it still does nothing to induce me to visit the website. It just seems the Net-marketing strategies get crazier and crazier. ChickClick.com is running a contest to find an online DJ (or "chick-jockey" as they call it), and they promise one year's free rent in Los Angeles and "all the coolest parties" to the woman who sends in the best demo tape. That's a cool deal, but is this an indication of a true boom in on-line listening? Or just trying to grab a slice of a fixed pie? Has any singer...
...retire and not have to do it anymore-and it's not too far from now. For 40 years old, some of them could retire today, and many of them will be able to semi-retire in 10 or 15 years. I'll still be struggling to pay the rent. But I've got a lot of stories. And I've got a legacy of music that seems to matter to some people. That's something...
...organization has long been remiss in paying its rent to Harvard, and graduate board members said they simply do not have the cash to keep up the building...