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My plans strengthen rights and supports for people with disabilities—since all issues impact this community. My plan is intersectional, recognizing how disability is visible and invisible, how the challenges are urgent, and how we must combat disparities: p4a.us/access
I worked with our disability policy team—led by people with disabilities—to develop our plan with extensive input from disability leaders and stakeholders with different backgrounds.
Our plan will end the subminimum wage and double labor force participation of people with disabilities by 2030. We'll make inclusive education a national expectation and fully fund IDEA. We’ll end the SSDI benefit cliff and increase accessible public housing and transportation.
We’ll make disaster preparedness efforts inclusive and help ensure that, after a disaster, people with disabilities can return to their homes and communities.

We’ll develop an Accessible Technology Bill of Rights and make the voting process accessible to everyone. #CripTheVote
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Women make up half the American workforce. But across the board—from CEOs to first responders—women are not paid equally for the work they do.

On average, women are paid 83 cents for each dollar paid to a white man. For Black women, it falls to 62 cents. For Latinas, it’s 52.
On this day in 2009, President Obama took an important step forward by signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, giving women the power to right past wrongs. But 11 years later, women are still earning less for equal work.

It's 2020. That's unacceptable.
If we don’t act now, it could take 200 years for the gap to close for all women.

It’s time to break with the past and build lasting power for all women in America—that means closing the gap and tackling the injustices that go beyond equal pay.
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This is the most consequential election of our lifetimes.

And it's not just because we have to beat Donald Trump. He won by exploiting Americans’ anger at this broken system, which is why the riskiest thing we could do is go back to the same Washington playbook. #PeteOnFox
We have to rally the American people to do things that have never been done before.

In the face of unprecedented challenges, it's more important than ever that we transcend the same old Washington fights of the past and put forward a vision for the future. #PeteOnFox
We need Americans to believe we can build an economy that works for everyone. We need Americans to believe we can do a better job tackling climate change before it’s too late and steals opportunity from our children. We need Americans to believe we can keep them safe. #PeteOnFox
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One way or another, this presidency will come to an end.

On the day after Donald Trump leaves office, when the sun rises and the dust clears, we ought to be able to say that we rejected the corruption and the chaos—that we acted to save our democracy before it was too late.
This president left Congress with no choice.

The House met its constitutional duty by impeaching Donald Trump.

The Senate must meet the moment by putting duty to the Constitution ahead of loyalty to this president.

The American people are ready to meet this moment too.
Together, in caucus rooms and in voting booths across the country, we will choose a new path forward.

Together, we will turn the page on the corruption and the chaos and usher in a new era of unity and belonging.

This is our moment.
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Neurodiversity info thread!

So you’re doing a story about #Neurodiversity, or you want to know more about the Neurodiversity Movement. We’re here to help.

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