INDIANA - Over 23 million US households will be forced to pay hundreds more yearly or give up internet access as a key federal aid program runs out of money. A federal benefit known as the Affordable Connectivity Program which covers home internet service for low-income Americans could .
Twenty-three million families in the U.S. will have bigger internet bills starting in May. That's because a federal broadband subsidy program they're enrolled in is nearly out of money. Dozens of people joined Biden administration officials, advocates and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, at a Washington public library on Tuesday to make a last-ditch plea to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, a subsidy created by Congress and touted by President Joe Biden as part of his push to bring internet access to every U.S. household. “They need access to high-speed internet just like they need access to electricity,” Sen. Welch told the gathering.
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