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...resignation of nationally recognized education economist Hoxby will place tonight’s forum under even sharper scrutiny...
...fair. Yet, every decision the committee has made suggests otherwise. Just consider the testimony it has heard. Apart from hearing from administrators and contractors who have presented institutional information, it has heard exclusively from groups lobbying for the living wage: the Living Wage Campaign, the Workers Center, a Workers Forum and all four unions that represent Harvard employees. The committee has not heard one presenter who has made a positive case against the living wage, and it stops hearing testimony today...
...also concerned that our proceedings did not have the appearance, let alone the reality, of balance. Thus, when Matt Milikowsky (the only undergraduate on the committee not associated with the Living Wage Campaign) suggested that we hear from one fewer Living Wage campaigner at tonight’s public forum so that we could have more time for voices from the floor, I was shocked to hear the scorn with which the principled people greeted this modest proposal for a more representative hearing. None of them even voiced sympathy with Milikowsky’s concern that we were not hearing...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), popularly dubbed the Katz Committee after its chair, Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, has been charged with examining the University wage and employment policies. The committee is scheduled to release its preliminary data at the ARCO Forum this evening. In a letter to The Crimson, Hoxby questioned whether that data came from a balanced process...
Suggestions to open this evening’s forum to more undergraduate comment were met with “scorn” at last Friday’s Katz Committee meeting, Hoxby wrote...