Alabama urgently needs broadband for every community and family
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
By Marsha Folsom | Resource Fiber
When people ask how to bring business and jobs to our state, particularly in disadvantaged rural areas, I readily quip . broadband and bamboo.
My partners and I co-founded Resource Fiber, LLC nine years ago and we are the only American company bringing bamboo growing and manufacturing – a $60 billion industry dominated by China – to the U.S. beginning in the state of Alabama. We’re generating high-wage jobs in low-income communities. We manufacture high-value industrial products and we are introducing a high-dollar cash crop to local areas suffering from high poverty rates, stagnant wages and out-migration.