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...Hoyte said. That was the sentiment echoed at a panel Thursday night in Kirkland House, where activists from the Boston area spoke on how their organizations are drawing connections to environmentalism. Aaron K. Tanaka ’04, who works with a group called the Boston Workers?? Association, described his organization’s efforts to give unemployed workers training in “green” jobs, such as weatherizing houses and installing solar panels. Tanaka and John Bolduc, an environmental planner for the city, outlined projects like the Cambridge Energy Alliance, which gives loans...
...engine of development. Angelides notes that between now and 2030, 75 percent of the buildings in the U.S. will either be new or substantially rehabilitated. Why not make them solar? Why not hire those unemployed due to housing crisis to build them? Blue-collar “Joe Construction Workers?? can transform into a green-collar heroes...
...Health Alliance had already instituted a hiring freeze and cut back on discretionary spending in February, and is now in the midst of laying off roughly 300 workers??9 percent of its workforce...
...largely from the number of uninsured patients it has been treating in the months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. The hospital system has already cut back on discretionary spending, such as travel costs, and is halfway through laying off roughly 300 workers??nine percent of its staff, according to Health Alliance spokesperson Doug M. Bailey...
...issues that students have the most power to affect are the ones that are most often overlooked: college governance, undergraduate education, expansion into Allston, staff workers?? pay and treatment, etc. There seems to be an inverse relation between the closeness to which an issue hits students and their commitment to specific issues...