Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a wide-ranging agenda Wednesday for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population.

The plan announced by the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is titled “Belonging, Opportunity, Empowerment: An Agenda for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” The contents of the policy website were shared prior to publication with NBC Asian America, which was the first to report on it.

The comprehensive plan focuses on education, jobs and health and includes AAPI-specific solutions such as disaggregating data down to ethnicity and improving language access to federal programs. It also highlights his platform on issues that target more general populations including gun safety and increasing pay and support for teachers...

Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of data and policy research nonprofit AAPI Data, said that there are a few portions of the plan that strike him as a deviation from what he would expect from the campaign, particularly Buttigieg’s immigration platform.

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