Jacqueline Farias has spent the last five years as a barista at Merit Coffee in Highland Park while working her way through Texas Woman’s University.
It’s not unusual for 400 customers to pass through during a shift. That’s a lot of pouring, sweeping and wiping. Her psychology degree helps her cope with “adults throwing tantrums” but hasn’t opened doors to a job yet.
So she didn’t take kindly to being stereotyped by Sen. Ted Cruz as a lazy pothead whose vote could be bought by erasing some of her $53,000 in student loans.
