Earlier this week, Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano Executive Director Alex Serna’s response to Erica Green’s recent piece “Low-Income College Students Face Tax Increase” was published by The New York Times. In his letter to the editor Alex asks, “What does taxing up to 37 percent of a low-income student’s non-tuition assistance say about our [country’s] values?” He calls us to look at the hardworking students he works with every day – students who “embody determination, humility, gratitude, perseverance and compassion” and encourages us to be more like them to ensure that “our values…reflect them accordingly.”
Read Alex’s whole letter here.
May 2019
Image source: The New York Times
