Student Demonstrators Take To Center City Streets
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- College and high school students are clogging the streets of Philadelphia Thursday afternoon in a march and rally in support of the fight for a $15 minimum wage, and free college tuition.
Students from Drexel, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple, the Community College of Philadelphia and area high schools are marching from their respective school to City Hall. The will be converging there at around 4:30 p.m.
This day has been dubbed the Million Student March across the country. It is in response to sky-rocketing student tuition and as a result, student debt, while the minimum wage has remained stagnant.
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