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...much sense as refusing to pay for your parents’ retirement home because they wouldn’t let you see R-rated movies when you were in high school.Finally, a great many seniors waver on Senior Gift simply because they think it better to donate after the wage-paying world has swelled their savings accounts. If Senior Gift is partially about increasing future giving, then why should students who know they will donate later give to Senior Gift now? To me, the answer is simple. Harvard represents an objectively good cause, though one of many. And when Harvard...
...their leverage as Harvard students to help the Miami workers at an event at 45 Mt. Auburn Street this Saturday. More than 100 Miami janitors have been striking for six weeks and 10 have been on a six day hunger strike to protest unfair working conditions and low wages. The janitors are employed by UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies. Harvard outsources much of its janitorial work to UNICCO. The janitors are working with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which helped janitors at Harvard achieve a living wage...
...attention comes against a backdrop of rising peril for dropouts. If their grandparents' generation could find a blue-collar niche and prosper, the latest group is immediately relegated to the most punishing sector of the economy, where whatever low-wage jobs haven't yet moved overseas are increasingly filled by even lower-wage immigrants. Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what smoking is to your physical health, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarceration rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop...
...most recently needed a new bumper. His favorite TV show, of course, is Pimp My Ride. He wants to save for tuition at Lincoln Technical Institute in Indianapolis so he can continue to develop his auto-sculpting skills. He rattles off the industry rates--car painters make an hourly wage of $22, collision techs $17--and he wants to get there. So he laughs it off every time somebody asks him in the hallway, "Hey, you're still in school? I would have thought you'd drop...
...plan to put most of the country's 12 million illegal immigrants (except for the estimated one million or so who have been in the U.S. for less than two years) on an eventual path to citizenship and open up a massive new legal immigration system for low-wage workers; at the same time, it would have removed many of the draconian penalties that were in a bill passed by the House last December...