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...Cambridge City Council unanimously approved a resolution last Monday night asking Harvard and MIT not to lay off low-wage workers, following recent staff cuts and hours reductions by cleaning companies subcontracted by Harvard...
...whether the money saved by the cuts was substantial enough to justify the lost jobs. Regardless of whether Harvard accepts the “stimulus,” Decker said, such a gesture of aid from the City would hopefully shame Harvard into realizing how unnecessary and immoral low-wage worker cuts are in light of its overall fiscal scheme...
Decker said that the Council’s intervention was justified because laying off low-wage workers would likely burden the City and state’s homeless shelters, food pantries, and low-income housing services...
...Decker said that Harvard and MIT should consider pay cuts for their highest paid employees rather than laying off low-wage workers such as janitors...
...question that Wyden and Cooper's plan raises is whether either side is really willing to completely scrap the current system, under which most people get coverage from their employers. That arrangement is more a historical accident than an efficient design, a legacy of World War II-era wage and price controls, when companies began offering health insurance as a way of attracting skilled workers. Over the years, however, much has changed. Few workers spend their entire careers working for one company anymore, and businesses are staggering under the burden of health-care costs, which have been rising at twice...