“You meet these mothers, Hispanic and African American mothers, they work two jobs, they scrub toilets on the weekend at Taco Bell . . . because they know the only way to break the cycle is to get their kid educated," Byrne said.
Vouchers, he said, would make it easier for those families. According to The Deseret Morning News, Byrne has given the pro-voucher campaign in Utah more than $3 million.
He said all other domestic issues are in truth just derivatives of education.
“There is such an unfair difference in education achievement in America today,” he told The News in an interview last week. “If we can't fix this, we are just rearranging furniture on the Titanic. But if we can fix this, a lot of pernicious ills of society would wash out over a generation.”
On Overstock.com, his biography details other efforts to “curtail injustice” such as combating global poverty, naked short selling on Wall Street (short changing small companies for profit) and collusion among hedge funds, as well as exposing corruption in business journalism.
--Diverse Online staff
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