Obama to announce project for more broadband in public housing

Reuters ^ | July 15, 2015

[BradtotheBone]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is set to announce on Wednesday a pilot project to expand broadband access for people who live in public housing, in his administration's latest push to bridge the "digital divide" between the rich and poor.

Working with mayors, internet service providers and other companies and nonprofits, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will make it cheaper and easier for more than 275,000 low-income households with almost 200,000 children to get home internet, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.

Obama is set to speak about the program in Durant, Oklahoma where the Choctaw Tribal Nation is working with four local providers to bring the internet to 425 homes.

The program will also launch in 27 other communities, mainly in large cities, the White House said.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You laugh...I bet if you poll people under 30 more than half of them would tell you it IS a right.

[tanknetter]

Funny enough, that works for me.

Keep them inside. With air conditioning. And Internet access to get them addicted to online gaming or porn. The foot soldier for social strife evaporates.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Guess you missed it in the 1st amendment. “The right to free wifi and use thereof will be provided..."

I think you're referring to the black/white distinction, where minorities are considered to be 3/5 of a worker, with the missing 2/5 to be picked up by whites.