Endowment tax hike would cost Harvard, MIT hundreds of millions

In 2017, during Trump’ s first term, Congress passed a 1.4 percent tax on investment income from university endowments that have at least $500,000 per student and at least 500 students— which translates to a minimum endowment of $250 million, although the threshold is larger for bigger universities. Wellesley College economics professor Phillip Levine, in a…