Ensuring that America has the world’s strongest military and strongest economy means investing in our ability to outsmart – not just outfight – our enemies. That means investing in public schools to ensure that the United States has the edge in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, precision electronics, and new forms of energy.
It also means respecting voters in this district who want to go to college but can’t. Ken Calvert has been in office for three decades, but only about one-in-five adults aged 25 and older holds a bachelor’s degree or higher in the Inland Empire, compared to nearly one-in-three statewide. Of the voters here who wanted to transfer from a junior college to a four-year school, only 28 percent managed to do that within six years. But again and again, Ken Calvert has voted to cut federal funding for education in Riverside County.
