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Investing in rural students and colleges essential to America s economic recovery

© iStock/The Hill illustration While the bipartisan infrastructure package is likely to include benefits for rural areas, such as funds to improve roads, bridges, and waterways, so far it does not include support for rural colleges, an important avenue for promoting economic mobility and economic development. In many states, a single rural college is the only postsecondary option for hundreds of miles around. Education gaps between rural communities and their more urbanized counterparts are sizable. In most states, rural high school students achieve graduation rates similar to urban and suburban counterparts, but their college enrollment rates are much lower. While 41 percent of urban adults have a college degree, only 28 percent of rural adults do. And during the pandemic, rural colleges have seen drastic drops in enrollment.

FCC Released Information on Emergency Broadband Benefit Program

  𝐅𝐂𝐂 𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝟒 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 Continues with Additional Program Outreach WASHINGTON, July 28, 2021—Today, FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced over four million households have enrolled in the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, the nation’s largest broadband affordability program to date. The $3.2 billion subsidy program initiated by Congress provides a temporary $50 to $75 discount on eligible households’ internet bills during the duration o

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