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...accepted, the proposal would raise the requirement from four Advanced Placement tests with a minimum score of four to four tests each with scores of five...
...called "corporatization" in the argot of this still officially communist land). Some workers have found new jobs in the expanding private sector, but urban unemployment remains high, at more than 8%. The economy grew last year 7.4%, which sounds extremely robust by U.S. standards but is dangerously near the minimum rate needed to create jobs for the tens of millions entering the work force each year or laid off from the slowly shrinking state sector...
Instead of noting that the $11 to $22 per hour minimum wage estimates are “unreliable” because the higher figure doubles the lower, a human being with an ounce of feeling and understanding of what it costs to feed and clothe a family would note: “Gee, the lowest figure exceeds what both custodians and security guards earn here! Even the very lowest estimate...
...technical question, one that should be referred to the experts to solve with scientific studies. And indeed, measuring consumption patterns or pricing a given basket of goods are technical problems that a good study can solve. But the living wage isn’t supposed to be a biological minimum, representing the most grinding misery that human beings can physically sustain. Whether a given living standard is “adequate” is decidedly not a technical question, and treating it as one serves only to obscure the true nature of PSLM’s cause...
This isn’t to say that there’s anything wrong with asking for more money. If a society believes it’s important to sacrifice some potential growth in order to have a minimum wage or progressive taxation, it’s free to do so. Harvard is just as free to make certain sacrifices in order to raise wages and make conditions a little less painful for some of its workers. But to couch the demand for higher wages in the language of universal rights—which does not lend itself...