Comcast Announces 3 Million Low-Income Americans Have Crossed the Digital Divide Through Internet Essentials

According to a five-year progress report, Comcast’s acclaimed Internet Essentials program has helped connect 750,000 families, or 3 million low-income Americans, to low-cost, high-speed Internet service at home. David L. Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Comcast Corporation, made the announcement alongside six-time Olympic Medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who was recently named the national spokesperson for Internet Essentials. The two kicked off a multi-city tour that, over the next six weeks, will stop in Chicago (IL), Houston (TX), San Francisco (CA), Denver (CO), and Philadelphia (PA) where the company will announce more than $2 million in grants to community-based organizations that provide vital digital literacy training and Internet access.