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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Podcast explores how Biden broadband infrastructure plan could address rural poverty and help close digital gap

A recent Brookings Institution podcast discussed how President Biden's broadband infrastructure plan could address rural poverty while helping bridge the rural-urban digital gap.

Only 72 percent of rural Americans have home broadband internet service, and those who do are likely to pay much more for it than suburban or urban dwellers. Rural Blacks and Latinos are even less likely than other rural residents to have home broadband, Nicol Turner Lee reports for Brookings.

The podcast addresses rural/urban and white/minority broadband disparities, as well as what local challenges communities will face in building out broadband, and what policymakers, industry insiders, and others can do to support it. 

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