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A way to make COVID-19 college furloughs more fair

  • Written by Charlie Kurth, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University
Only some campus workers get to keep their jobs.MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

When the state of California cut funding to the University of California system by US$619.3 million, or 19%, in the wake of the 2008-09 recession, the leaders of the UC system tried to spread the resulting economic pain to its employees in a fair...

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