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...long complained about its cramped headquarters. But organizers for a new departmental program behind it hope the room will fill up very quickly. The room comes courtesy of the recently-formed Lab for Economic Applications and Policy—a rare splurge amidst the University’s belt tightening??��which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure...
While a global financial crisis underscores the vulnerability of the University’s coffers, “belt-tightening??�� has become an administrative catchphrase—but departmental leaders say that confusion over the precise nature and extent of cuts will remain until top administrators offer more specific information...
...formed in September 2003 in response to University-wide budget cuts, outsourcing and hundreds of impending layoffs. From the outset, they took an extreme position against all layoffs at Harvard, citing the University’s $19.3 billion endowment as proof that the ongoing “belt tightening??��—which led to layoffs this year of over 200 clerical and administrative workers around the University—was unnecessary...
Employees asked about health care benefits, the future of the library’s financial health and mechanics of the initial “belt-tightening??�� implemented earlier this year...
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