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Broadband costs too much for some people. Fixing that won t be easy CNET 2 hrs ago © Robert Rodriguez/CNET
Some Americans don t have home internet because there s no service where they live. But others can t afford it.
When the novel coronavirus forced schools to shut down last March, Maegen Wagner, a single mother living near Reading, Pennsylvania, was thankful for at least one thing: She didn t need to worry about how she d pay for internet service.
Since her divorce in 2017, the 39-year-old mother of two children had been enrolled in Comcast s Internet Essentials program, which offers low-income families broadband access for only $9.95 per month. While money was already tight before the pandemic began, things got even worse for Wagner when she lost her assistant teaching job just as remote learning classes resumed in the fall.
Pandemic emergency program offers $50 off your internet bill
May 12, 2021 / 12:40 PM / CBS/AP Democrats under pressure to pass Biden agenda
Americans can begin applying for $50 off their monthly internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic.
The $3.2 billion program is part of the $900 billion December pandemic-relief package. The government is increasing spending on broadband as the pandemic made stark that millions of Americans did not have access to, and could not afford, broadband at a time when jobs, schools and health care were moving online.
Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chairwoman of the FCC, said the program is aimed at helping people who have had to sit in parking lots or outside a public library to catch a wifi signal, as well as free up household budgets that have been squeezed by the pandemic s economic impact.
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