Tabata Amaral: Our Country loses billions of reais every year because thousands of young people leave high school to do informal odd jobs to try to supplement the household income, with a few reais today but compromising their entire earning capacity in the future.
Tabata Amaral: When a young person is kept in school, a generational cycle of poverty is broken.
A young person who graduates will earn more, consume more, generate more taxes and will rely less on assistance networks.
Tabata Amaral: Pé-de-Meia is a pact; it is Brazil looking into the face of each of these young people and saying: "Stay, study, believe — your turn will come."
Tabata Amaral: A young person with a future is a light; it is the best thing for them and for our Brazil.