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...report??s credit, it doesn’t endorse a mandatory wage floor. For that, you should be relieved. Remember that Undergraduate Council meeting you attended last October? Referring to a “living wage,” you said, “Presentations that present it as good and evil are not likely to be helpful in solving the problem.” And you were right to table the matter of moral principle. Despite PSLM’s claims, it isn’t at all obvious that Harvard has a duty to pay more...
...excellence in teaching and research requires compensation and other employment practices that attract, retain and motivate employees to facilitate and undertake these activities.” In other words, Harvard only has to be nice because doing so helps fulfill its academic mission. That’s the report??s central claim, and it only supports HCECP’s proposals insofar as they further Harvard’s scholarly pursuits...
...exaggerating the report??s implication a bit, but the essential point remains: HCECP doesn’t offer one shred of evidence demonstrating a relationship between the wages of Harvard’s lowest earners and the University’s academic output; nor does it provide evidence suggesting that the employees who would benefit from HCECP’s recommendations are currently giving less than full productivity. You are a policymaker. You aren’t in the habit of endorsing policies without empirical support. And yet that is precisely what HCECP is asking...
...questions whether HCECP takes its central claim seriously. I suspect the report??s idiotic instrumental justification of a pay hike was simply a way of letting HCECP say what it wanted to say all along without resting its case on the naked assertion of elusive moral precepts. It seems that at the heart of this report lies a standard theme of the left’s loony repertoire: since the rich (and Harvard is indeed rich) have so many dollars, they had better cough up a few (million) to help save the world. Rejecting the report?...
...think some of it we very much agree with,” D’Alessandro said of the report??s recommendations. “For this coming year, I don’t think we can do the entire package...