April 23, 2019 by Sheila Weller · Activism

Cuts to Funding for the Blind, Deaf and Deafblind Are Three Steps Backward

And the government wants to spy on people with disabilities.

Three very negative developments have just been proposed that put the underserved disabled community at a further disadvantage. First, just the other week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (she of the—thwarted—effort to put a kibosh on the Special Olympics) proposed $25 million in cuts to funding for the blind, deaf, and deafblind. These cuts would be “devastating,” Megan Conway says.

To be punished for proudly disseminating a photograph showing the ability to get along well in the world, despite enormous obstacles, is sadistically cruel.

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