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...financial aid packages. Yale will now match Harvard policy of reducing contributions from families that earn less than $60,000 per year. Yale has also guaranteed that it will not require contributions from families that earn less than $45,000 per year, up from Harvard’s threshold...
Fitzsimmons said Harvard has no plans at this time to match Yale’s $45,000 threshold. “We’ll continue to treat each family individually,” he said. “It isn’t a cut and dry thing, the way those intervals make it look...
...economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon to Europe's economy...
Most disturbingly, the problem of overpriced coursepacks is widespread. Harvard’s Digital Printing Services lists nine classes with offerings of more than $100 each, while at least a half dozen other packs from the Coop exceed this threshold as well; the readings price tag for Women Gender and Sexuality 1003, Theories of Sexuality, for example, is more than $300. Professors need to do a better job of factoring in coursepack costs when they select readings for their courses. Otherwise, students are faced with the unattractive dilemma of skipping expensive but worthwhile classes, or illegally reproducing coursepacks in defiance...
...Means testing of benefits Social Security benefits are available to anyone, but should the safety net protect those who don't need it? Means testing would limit benefits for the wealthy by eliminating them above a certain threshold or reducing them as income or assets rise. That would reduce the benefit burden but could weaken support for the program. A wealth threshold might tempt people to hide assets and create a disincentive to save...