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Addressing Unbanked/Underbanked Challenges Requires Multifaceted Approach, According to New Report
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Connecticut has twice as many residents who lack broadband as Massachusetts, which has two times the population of Connecticut. That’s according to an independent research agency called Broadband Access.
Governor Ned Lamont is using the Broadband Access report to convince lawmakers to pass his universal broadband accessibility bill. The legislation gives an incentive to service providers to connect high speed internet to underserved parts of the state including the rural northwestern corner.
That s an area Lamont said has experienced a phenomenal influx of new residents since the pandemic.
“They have hundreds of people who have moved up there. And they stay if they can telecommute. They don’t stay if they can’t. So it s about economic development. So it s about economic development and it s about just basic dignity. Nobody can be left behind,” Lamont said.
Broadband Proved a Top Priority for State Policymakers in 2020
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New Mexico Examines Barriers to Navajo Internet Access
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the Internet gaps across the 27,000-square-mile reservation. Only 46 percent of households on tribal lands have basic broadband access.
May 07, 2021 •
Shutterstock (TNS) Heleen Archuleta, a sophomore at Cuba High School who lives in the Counselor community of the Navajo Nation, was U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján s virtual guest for President Biden s joint address to Congress in April.
But the 16-year-old Navajo student didn t have Internet at home or electricity to watch the president s remarks live. (The pandemic) exacerbated existing disparities between the communities that have (Internet) access and those that don t, including many of our tribal and pueblo and rural communities, Luján said during a panel discussion of tribal, federal and state leaders held remotely Thursday. If we can close this ga
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Federal, state and tribal leaders host a listening session about Navajo Nation broadband access on Thursday. Clockwise, from left, are Navajo Tribal Utility Authority general manager Walter Haase, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.
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Heleen Archuleta, a sophomore at Cuba High School who lives in the Counselor community of the Navajo Nation, was U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján’s virtual guest for President Biden’s joint address to Congress in April.
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