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Boston Globe
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Trump threatens to send grant money for Harvard to trade schools instead
The Trump administration has already moved to freeze funding and block Harvard's ability to enroll international students in an intensifying battle over what the president has cast as a failure by the Ivy League university and others to crack down on antisemitism. Harvard is the oldest and richest US university with a $53 billion endowment. Advertisement Administration officials have been using that rationale to pressure schools to institute wide policy changes that university officials say infringe on free speech and their academic missions. Harvard has been front and center in Trump's campaign, with the administration already suspending more than $2.6 billion in federal research money and saying the school won't be able to receive new funding. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The government had demanded a series of changes as a condition of continuing its financial relationship with the university: It has to remake its governance, transform admissions and faculty hiring, which the administration has called discriminatory, as well as stop admitting international students who officials say are hostile to American values. The administration has also said that Harvard should ensure more diverse viewpoints on a campus that it says leans too liberal. Harvard sued in April. The government has also moved to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but the university won a temporary court order blocking the government from enforcing that ban. Advertisement Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said last week that Harvard's responses to government's requests to provide information about misconduct by foreign students were insufficient. To regain its program certification, Harvard was given 72 hours to provide six categories of information about foreign students over the past five years, including disciplinary records and video of those engaged in protests. Harvard still hasn't turned over the information about foreign students, with Trump calling the university 'very slow in the presentation of these documents.' The information is needed, Trump said in a second post on Monday, the Memorial Day holiday, to determine 'how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.' At Harvard nearly 6,800 students — 27% of the entire student body — come from other countries, up from 19.6% in 2006, according to the university's data. Harvard says its international population on campus is composed of more than 10,000 people, which includes fellows or others coming for nondegree programs and their dependents.
Boston Globe
22-04-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
To avert manufacturing crisis, Trump may have to ditch his tariff plan
But less than 100 days into Trump's second term, manufacturers across the country now fear that the president's tariffs could actually make their economic realities worse — and understandably so. If Trump is going to avert a financial crisis for many of the manufacturers and their employees who sent him back to Washington, he may have to abort his tariff plan — and soon. Advertisement Growing anxiety about job cuts is not irrational, given the expected rise in costs following Trump's ongoing trade war. Thousands of Massachusetts residents go to work each day in factories on the state's South Coast, making products that include materials that come from abroad. One such manufacturer, Advertisement 'These universal and reciprocal tariffs, which are supposed to provide [an] incentive for manufacturing investment in the United States, are actually damaging manufacturers more than helping them,' Matouk 'We're talking about millions of dollars that the government is now going to be taxing us every year on materials that we require for manufacturing, job creation,' he added. But even before Trump announced his widely criticized tariff plan, the job market for Massachusetts residents was looking less promising than some desired. The state's total unemployment rate for March was slightly Trump announcing a minimum 10 percent tariff on all US imports earlier this month — on a day he christened 'Liberation Day' — only exacerbated fears among manufacturers and their employees. A plan the president was attempting to celebrate instead induced dread among those within the manufacturing industry, as the reality set in that these changes could lead to both more expensive items and fewer jobs. The 'Sentiment has now lost more than 30% since December 2024 amid growing worries about trade war developments that have oscillated over the course of the year,' Surveys of Consumers director Joanne Hsu Advertisement Administration officials attempted to quickly make some adjustments in response to criticism of his plan from both opponents and supporters. The president's team walked back some tariffs for a number of countries after economists at the American Enterprise Institute, one of the country's foremost conservative think tanks, pointed out a mathematical error in the formula the administration used to calculate tariffs. 'If we are going to pretend that it is a sound basis for US trade policy,' the economists And pro-Trump manufacturers should be allowed to expect that a president who pledged to strengthen manufacturing would make decisions that wouldn't actually worsen outcomes for their companies. But by the looks of it, the increased employment opportunities that voters were promised are on track to be much farther off than expected. Or at worst, may never come.
