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...deficient in their analysis.”“By raising the relative price of unskilled workers, the passage of a living wage shifts the tradeoffs in a way that means fewer of those workers will be hired,” he explained.According to the Office of Human Resources?? 2005 Annual Report on the Status of Employees, 349 custodial workers were employed at Harvard in March 2001. That number grew to 363 in April 2004, but then dropped back down to 346 in April 2005.Janitors in their first three years at Harvard were paid $11.35 per hour...
...simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources??—including the resources that you and I control. Every dollar we spend on pet food, clothes, DVDs, and the like could be spent on food, medicine, or peacekeeping operations. We privileged few with full stomachs and extra money have hard decisions to make about how we?...
...panelists said that a massive influx of resources??including money, technology, and training—would be needed to rebuild and modernize Iraq’s universities...
Attendees also discussed the results of a recent SASI survey of 126 Harvard undergraduates that they say demonstrated limited resources??including a lack of classes in the area and the absence of a well-organized plan of study—hampering students’ ability to pursue South Asian studies...
...short, we commend the CEA for coming up with a very thorough report. While financial aid for summer study abroad is an excellent idea, we also encourage the CEA to look into ways that Harvard can improve its international resources??whether property or academic partnerships—and increase the academic rigor of study abroad programs. We also urge the CEA to focus on alternative ways for students to gain international experience outside of studying abroad during the semester. A step in the right direction, it is now up to Harvard’s administration to fund these...