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SLAM’s “living wage” campaign once again is a prime example. Instead of academically engaging the notion of a living wage and trying to validate it, SLAM ignores the vast literature critical of the notion of a living wage. Instead of talking to Harvard’s famed labor economists about how wage structures work, they denounce capitalists. Instead, they work backwards to determine that the “living wage” of a single adult with two children in Boston is $29.64 per hour, an annual income of $62,589, which...
...campus—such as disrupting a CIA panel by throwing up, calling each other’s cell phones, and shouting. Nor do I approve of almost any of the causes for which they advocate, including kicking the Coca-Cola Company off campus, giving workers a living wage, and forcing out military and business recruiters. I do, however, recognize their ability to influence or even create campus-wide debate. They organize protests and marches, table in dining halls, host lectures, and pass out flyers in front of the Science Center. Their commitment and drive is admirable...
Either way, what goes on within universities’ walls has tremendous influence on what transpires without. Nowhere is this truer than at Harvard. Student protests here, from the Living Wage Campaign to divestment campaigns, are unlike many other protests in this age of unresponsive government and unaccountable corporations. Our campaigns are rarely ignored, and they shine light on issues that otherwise would go unnoticed...
SLAM is buoyed by two successful recent campaigns—one to secure a wage hike for dining hall workers this past spring, and a second to reinstate William James Hall janitor Saintely Paul, who said he had been fired for fainting...
Even if the impetus for eliminating tolls was intended to be somehow progressive by helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...