Tom Steyer on Civil Rights Democratic Presidential Challenger; CEO

Increase disability funding; we all succeed together

STEYER: I believe in the idea that we're in it together, that we succeed together, and that looking down or not investing and giving a chance to anybody who is an American is something that to me is deeply wrong. So when I think about disabilities, it starts with the Individuals with Disability Education Act. Basically the federal government says that they'll pay approximately 40 percent of the cost of the education of individuals with disabilities, and they pay about 13 percent. So to me, the real question here is partly a policy of making sure that we fund people's abilities to succeed, but beyond that there is a question here about attitude that goes towards people with disabilities, people of different race, people with a different sexual orientation, or however we want to cut the American pie.

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