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I think the part you're missing is that they support raising taxes on the very wealthy, not on college students who are barely scraping by as it is...

[friedman23]

oh those poor poor Berkeley college students

[krastanov]

The demographics of college students and graduate students are nothing alike, and the article is about graduate students.

[JohnTHaller]

53% of Berkeley students have under $30k a year of income and receive an average of $14000 in aid.

[megaman22]

What are the 47% who make more than 30k a year doing, and going to school at the same time?

[jedberg]

I worked in University IT and made over $30K working part time during the school year and full time in the summer, as did most of my coworkers. Also, we made slightly more than the normal person because Social Security tax is waived for working students, so that's like a 7% bonus.

When you're in the Bay Area and your students can choose to work for the University or go get a paid internship down the road, you have to compete on wages.

[klipt]

If they're undergrads that's probably counting their parents' income, not their own.