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Broadband costs too much for some people Fixing that won t be easy

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.

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Pa women who leave jobs to care for kids are being wrongfully denied unemployment

Pa. women who leave jobs to care for kids are being wrongfully denied unemployment Ellie Silverman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © STEVEN M. FALK/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Maegen Wagner, 39 with her daughter Elizabeth, 7 and son Ryan, 10. When her Berks County school board voted in August to send Maegan Wagner and her colleagues back into classrooms, Wagner knew she had no choice: She would have to quit the job she loves. The assistant teacher’s 7-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, has Down syndrome. The family pediatrician said it was too dangerous for Elizabeth to return to school or day care. Wagner is a single parent and Elizabeth’s sole caregiver, making it unsafe for the 39-year-old educator to work in a building where the coronavirus could spread, and impossible to work in-person during hours when she would need to watch her daughter and her 10-year-old son.

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