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Public Knowledge Celebrates FCC Action To Connect the Vulnerable With New $50 Broadband Subsidy Targeted News Service (Press Releases) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2021: Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission voted on circulation to approve a Report and Order to establish the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, a $3.2 billion federal initiative to provide qualifying households discounts on their internet service bills and an opportunity to receive a discount on a computer, laptop, or tablet. The program created by Congress subsidizes broadband and device payments for low-income consume...

The Daily Yonder Experts Discuss the Importance of Rural Perspective for Policy Making "The Future of Rural America under President Biden” panel warned that the lack of rural input is responsible for decades of structural issues that harm entire populations. Share this: Landscape around Kenyon College, the host of the February 18th, 2021 panel, entitled “The Future of Rural America under President Biden.” (Photo by Daniel Napsha) Rural perspectives should be present in every office in the Biden administration, said a panel of rural policy experts convened by students at Kenyon...

By Dian Schaffhauser 01/26/21 The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, a nonprofit that promotes "open, affordable, high-quality broadband connections," has issued a roadmap for 2021, laying out what it will be pursuing in its mission of supplying internet access to an estimated 42 million unconnected people in the United States. At the heart of the solution is reliance on "anchor institutions" that need high-speed connectivity for their own operations and are well positioned to be able to share that with the surrounding community. Such organizations include K-12 districts...