White House Rural Council to Address Digital Divide
A new White House program seeks to increase opportunities in rural communities across America. The White House Rural Council, formally announced earlier this month, will address the challenges facing rural businesses, organizations, and families.
The council combines various approaches to the process of expanding rural communities' economic viability, including the build out of broadband networks. Expanding broadband capacity is an ongoing goal of the Obama administration and has had a vast impact on economic growth worldwide.
CWA supports broadband expansion in rural communities as means of bridging the digital divide and connecting often isolated businesses and communities to new economic markets. Expanding broadband networks should be a high priority for the Rural Council and would help bring online innovation, economic growth, and telecommunications jobs to these underserved areas.
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