Even after large stock market losses, if Harvard paid out five percent of its endowment--a requirement for all private foundations except those of colleges and universities--it would increase the school's budget by $214 million.
They've suffered a large financial loss on paper, but so have the rest of us, and lawmakers shouldn't let the economic downturn curtail efforts for endowment sanity.
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