But committee members say they could not make their deliberations public for fear of disclosing incomplete or inaccurate recommendations.
"The feeling was that you didn't want to dribble it out because each piece wouldn't look as robust," Zeckhauser says. "Up until the last meeting there was disagreement. We didn't want to put things out half-baked."
But McKean says 13 months represents far too long a time for a committee to study employment practices at Harvard.
"I don't think that it takes empirical research to see that people who work for Harvard need enough money to live," McKean says. "This isn't an issue that can wait 13 months--there are people living in poverty right now."
Two Thumbs Down
"I thought the report was completely inadequate to address the issue of poverty on campus," Offner says.
Students say the committee's greatest failing was to dismiss a wage boost outright.
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