The Daily Dose

One of the biggest (and largely unspoken) challenges in America has been the deep digital divide between rich and poor families. Households who cannot afford Internet not only miss out on crucial information about the world around them, but it can severely hobble their ability to communicate with others or apply to jobs. For children, the blow can be worse: as more classrooms are going online, children without easy access to the Web can be easily left behind. That’s what makes the FCC’s decision to approve a low-income subsidy for broadband Internet so important. The program, reported by the New…

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