Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After Hammerberg and Shaner's pair less than three minutes after halftime, Harvard called a timeout and Guyer rediscovered her spectacular form, holding the Tigers scoreless for the next 11 minutes and limiting the damage for the rest of the game...
...Less than a minute later, Maddox followed up with goal of her own to bring the Tigers to within one before Kenworthy tied the game...
According to the administration's own figures, there are roughly 1,000 workers on this campus earning less than $10 an hour. These workers range from directly-hired janitors, who make as little as $7.50 per hour, to the hundreds of subcontracted dining hall workers, janitors and security guards who make as little as $6 per hour and typically lack union membership. They work two or three jobs, and as many as 80 hours a week. They often have to choose between seeing their children and providing for them. At least 90 percent of these workers receive no benefits whatsoever...
Personally, I know a janitor who makes less than $10 per hour and who is struggling to pay for his wife's cancer treatment. I also know subcontracted security guards who are eligible for some benefits, but cannot accept them because they realize that when they cost the subcontracting company $9 to $9.50 per hour, they lose their jobs. Interestingly, administrators typically argue against a living wage by claiming that wage standards ignore benefits which workers receive. Perhaps most disturbingly, the workers facing these intolerable circumstances are disproportionately immigrants and people of color--people whom Harvard administrators evidently consider...
These workers don't stand a chance of surviving in the local economy. Affordable housing is generally defined as housing that costs less than 30 percent of income, so a subcontracted dining hall worker making $6 an hour and raising one child would be looking to pay about $288 per month in rent. Unfortunately, the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in our area is actually $1,400 per month. Even if this worker took a second full-time job and was lucky enough to find the cheapest possible housing, rent would still amount to nearly half...