Being offline means missing out — on jobs, on education, on health, and on information. And the events of the past year have made lack of a broadband connection even more dire. Working and learning from home, using telemedicine for basic health care, shopping online, and staying in touch with family and friends via video calls is lost to those without internet access.
Alarmingly large numbers of American families are currently excluded from the digital world. Either they live in regions where it is uneconomical for the broadband providers to deploy infrastructure or they find the services to be unaffordable.
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