The Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.
Sean Gonsalves
Sean Gonsalves is the associate director for communications and senior writer with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community Broadband Networks Initiative.
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The Municipal Broadband Solution
A federal affordable internet program is ending. But muni-owned broadband networks have figured out how to deliver affordable high-speed internet access themselves.
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How Monopolies and Maps Are Killing ‘Internet for All’
The $65 million moon shot to bring every American affordable broadband is failing low-income communities of color.
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Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.