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December 26, 2017

California Students Launch Campaign for Ballot Measure to Make Universities Free
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In California, students and activists have launched a statewide campaign
to gather signatures for a ballot measure that would reinstate
California's inherited estate tax in order to provide free tuition for
public universities and community colleges across California. They
launched the grassroots initiative only days after Republican lawmakers
voted to slash the federal estate tax as part of Trump's tax plan. This
is one of the student organizers.

Cynthia Diaz: "My name is Cynthia Diaz, and I currently attend City
College in San Francisco. College for All is a ballot initiative that
will make college tuition free all across California, which includes
UCs, Cal States and community colleges, by taxing the inheritance of the
rich. It prioritizes low-income students, but it also includes
undocumented students under AB 130, formerly incarcerated students and
nontraditional students, those who do not go to college directly from
high school."



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