BSAC Rallies to Demand
Progressive Tax Revenues
for Massachusetts
Students say "Invest in Us!!"
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Hundreds of young people from across the Commonwealth convened at the Massachusetts State House on Thursday, March 21st to represent their communities to fight for state funding for education, transportation, infrastructure, and youth jobs through progressive revenue proposals.
This rally was organized by YMORE (Youth of MA Organizing for a Reformed Economy) and attended by dozens of groups from across the State including BSAC, the YOUNG Coalition, Diller Teen Fellows, Youth AffordabiliT Coalition, Chinese Youth Initiative, to name a few. Young people from Lexington to Boston, from Lowell to Arlington came out to support an income tax increase on the top income brackets while protecting working- and middle-class families and warning against regressive measures that may ask the neediest of the state to pay what they cannot afford. Young people visited their representatives to share their personal stories and explain the significance of more state funding.
Bianca Martinez, the vice-president of the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC), "We need schools that actually work; Where 400 students don't share one guidance counselor, where each student has access to his or her own textbooks, where he or she is not sitting on a makeshift desk all the way in the back of the classroom because there are already 35 students crowded in the room. We need the state to be seriously willing to invest in us, because we are the future of this Commonwealth. We should be the priority."
Please contact us or YMORE for more information!
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