Word: charityã
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Forgiving the debt is not a stroke of charity??€”justice requires it. Many of the loans to Africa were illegitimate to begin with, used by rich countries to prop up corrupt, repressive or dictatorial regimes. South Africa’s apartheid regime accumulated more than $18 billion in foreign debt in the 15 years before it fell. Today, a democratic South Africa is left to pay its tormentors’ IOUs. By canceling the debt, we would both help Africa fight an epidemic and undo the mercantilist policies of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged Africa?...
...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...