Word: waging
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Directly or indirectly, this $72 million in bonuses to five employees crowds out funds that would otherwise be available to boost pay at the low end of Harvard’s wage scale—or to restrain tuition increases and debt burdens imposed on students and their families. As the endowment has grown, one would think the economic burdens on students and their families would be alleviated. Not so. Every year since Bok’s retirement, tuition has risen by the rate of inflation only once. Every other year, it rose by substantially more than inflation?...
...brain drain" verges on a national neurosis. In the year to January, the number of New Zealanders permanently departing the country exceeded by 25,000 those returning home; two years earlier the gap was 11,200. About 90% of the dynamic comes from the pull of high-wage Australia. During last year's election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite a good economic performance under successive governments led by Labour...
...part of a four-year study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and an additional five years of funding through the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Krishnan and her co-workers have been going door to door in Bangalore, interviewing 750 low-wage married women ages 16 to 25. What they've discovered is that in that group, employment and the extra income it provides, rather than empowering women, puts them at greater risk of physical violence and contracting...
Each morning Dr. Jane Buxton, 49, bicycles through the manicured West Side of Vancouver, Canada, to wage an unconventional war on drugs. Just two miles north and a world apart from Buxton's office is a 10-square-block area known as Downtown Eastside, where a shifting population of some 5,000 addicts huddle together, drawn to Vancouver for its relatively mild climate, generous social services and easy access to street drugs. The area also boasts the highest concentration of HIV and hepatitis-C cases in North America; more than 80% of its drug users test positive for hepatitis...
...Harvard across disciplines is probably much smaller than these average trends,” he said. “Harvard has a long tradition of a more egalitarian wage structure...