Column: Campaigns need to get specific on disability issues
September 29th, 2008Writing in The Progressive, Kathi Wolfe says people with disabilities want to hear specifics about what candidates are prepared to do to address issues like health care, education, employment, access and technology. Wolfe, who is blind, would like to see the campaigns talk about:
- Assuring health care coverage for people with disabilities,
- Assuring full funding for education for people with disabilities, and
- Removing barriers to employment that leave 70 percent of people with disabilities without jobs.
In this presidential campaign, the candidates have an opportunity to pay more than lip service to our issues. I hope they will seize it.
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