Tabata Amaral: I call it by the right name: it is the best investment a Nation can make, because every young person who finishes their studies does not only change their own life or that of their family, but changes the entire development trajectory of our Brazil.
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.
When a young person is kept in school, a generational cycle of poverty is broken.
Tabata Amaral: 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."