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The next coronavirus relief bill needs to solve America's unbanked and unwired crises
Just two weeks after Congress passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act to provide relief to businesses and families hammered by the coronavirus lockdown, discussions are turning to another legislative package, which simply must address two urgent problems: Too many Americans don’t have access to banks, and they don’t have high-speed broadband. If they don’t get both soon, they will be in desperate straits.
COVID-19 is a wake-up call to close the digital divide
Our years-long failure to ensure universal access to essential internet service means that millions of kids aren’t getting the same educational opportunity as their peers. Congress and the Trump administration can fix this in their next emergency response to the deadly pandemic — and they must.
Op-Ed: COVID-19 will accelerate AI's replacement of humans as factor of production (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/13/2020 - 13:24Singapore stops teachers using Zoom, cites 'very serious incidents' (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 14:33Coronavirus surveillance concerns ramp up pressure to pass federal privacy law (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:17Attorney General Barr claims media 'jihad' against President Trump over promotion of anti-malaria drug (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 11:05Rural broadband and telehealth critical to America's COVID-19 response
Telehealth can play a vital role in keeping more Americans healthy and easing the stress on the capacity-strained health care system.