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...addition to mentioning the problems of poverty, Edwards proposed possible solutions, including a higher minimum wage, housing vouchers, and what he called “work bonds,” which would allow low-income families to have their savings matched by the government...
...newly found time on the hands of the Harvard University Police Department—free to double its force for the next Lamont party.There is only one problem. As Freakonomist, University of Chicago professor Stephen Levitt has pointed out, your average street hustler earns less than the minimum wage. Employees who serve the Harvard community should be doing better than that. If we legalize drugs, drug dealers will have to be paid a minimum wage, if not the living wage. This, however, may put some drug dealers out of business, since, as Mankiw tells us, an increase in wage leads...
...mature” foreign policy. He wants to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by exerting true pressure on Israel. He proposes pairing the fight against nuclear proliferation abroad with a reduction of American nuclear capabilities. And he rejects the notion that states have the right to wage pre-emptive war. These proposals are not revolutionary. What’s important is that he provides a comprehensive intellectual framework from which these goals emerge. This is not empty rhetoric.Walt begins with the familiar premises that American power is unrivalled and that America should do everything it can to maintain its primacy...
Harvard and Georgetown students convened last night to discuss future union empowerment and the achievement of a living wage on campus at a meeting organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). The meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers’ rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant...
...percent for 2005. Because vaccination costs are predicted to decline, the authors of the study posited that returns on investments will increase to 18 percent by 2020.The study predicted that children born in developing countries in 2005 who participate in the immunization program will earn 0.78 percent higher wages than children who do not. By 2020 the wage discrepancy will increase to 2.39 percent. “By boosting cognitive abilities, [the immunization program] improves children’s prospects of success when reaching working age. And it does so in an extremely cost-beneficial...