Section: Communications
President Barack Obama has announced a plan will provide over $1 billion in an effort towards installing broadband Internet across the United States. Approximately $800 million of that will be from tax-payer stimulus package money. This money comes from the total $7.2 billion that came from the stimulus package (money well spent). Is it just me, or does anyone else think wireless internet access should be available everywhere in the country by now?
“We’re competing aggressively to make sure the jobs and industries and the markets of tomorrow take root right here in the United States,” the president said. “We’re moving forward. And to every American who is looking for work, I promise you, we are going to keep on doing everything that we can.”
This plan will create some 5,000 temporary jobs for U.S. citizens Obama went on to say that this project will also benefit more than 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools.
“Once we emerge from the immediate crisis, the long-term economic gains to communities that have been left behind in a digital age will be immeasurable,” Obama said Friday.
With the advent of the printing press, global levels of literacy plummeted. Hopefully this new initiative will in a sense provide the same benefits to broadband-less areas across the country.
Via [McClatchydc]
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