Where does Barack Obama Stand on Disability Issues?

Now, with the election behind us, and new President-Elect Barack Obama ready to take over the office in a couple months, the United States is bracing itself for change. Barack Obama plans to empower people with disabilities through these key positions:

1. Provide the educational opportunities that Americans with disabilities need to succeed
2. End workplace discrimination and promote equal opportunity
3. Increase the employment rate of workers with disabilities
4. Support independent, community-based living for Americans with disabilities

To watch Barack Obama’s video detailing his plan to Empower People with Disabilities, visit http://www.barackobama.com/issues/disabilities/. You can also view the complete Disability Plan Fact Sheet in PDF format.

In Obama’s acceptance speech on November 4th, 2008, he specifically mentioned “people with disabilities”.

Barack Obama has a plan to empower people with disabilities.

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.We are, and always will be, the United States of America.” – President-Elect Barack Obama, Nov. 4, 2008

What do you think of Barack’s plans to empower Americans with Disabilities?