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...some members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the living wage is not a matter of charity??€”it is a matter of justice. To view the living wage as simply one among many good causes for which Harvard could write a check, to view Harvard’s workers as doe-eyed unfortunates and PSLM as their Sally Struthers, is both insulting and inaccurate. These students aren’t asking President Lawrence H. Summers to give higher wages merely as free alms for the good of his soul, but because the workers deserve them. The workers...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Nonsense on Stilts | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

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