Broadband Helps Create Jobs, Not Higher Wages

By Arik Hesseldahl/Business Week

Research shows that U.S. regions where broadband was introduced saw accelerated job growth, but the increased labor pool weighed on wages

Increased access to high-speed Internet connections helps create jobs, though it doesn't always result in higher wages, according to a new research report from the Public Policy Institute of California.

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Biden to unveil broadband expansion projects to boost jobs

by Patrik Jonsson/Christian Science Monitor

In the late 1920s, the Republicans crowed about how their policies had put a “chicken in every pot.”

The White House this week is dispatching Vice President Biden to southern Appalachia – the historic backdrop for economic hardship – to update that slogan to “a broadband connection in every home.”

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Intel, Dell, Fujitsu partner with nonprofit to increase low-income internet access

August 18, 2009
The Daily Tell

By Jenna Weiner

President Barack Obama has made it a national priority to offer broadband internet to homes across the country, authorizing a portion of the federal stimulus package to accomplish this goal.

In the pursuit of this aim, Intel, Dell and Fujitsu recently announced a partnership with nonprofit organization Connected Nation to offer deeply discounted computers and broadband internet access to low-income and unconnected households across the country.

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Connected Nation, Technology Stalwarts Launch Every Citizen Online

August 19, 2009
Cherokeean Hearld

Connected Nation, a national nonprofit, is joining with technology stalwarts Intel, Fujitsu, Velocity Micro, and ZT Systems to establish Every Citizen Online (SM), a public-private partnership program to enable computer ownership and broadband use in low-income and unconnected homes. The program will help vulnerable populations overcome top barriers to adoption: broadband awareness and training, computer ownership, and broadband affordability. In order to impact the most Americans, the partnership has submitted an application for Every Citizen OnlineSM to take advantage of Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding set aside for Sustainable Broadband Adoption as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

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Connected Nation: Access Not the Biggest Problem

August 14, 2009
TMCNet

By Gary Kim

Connected Nation is not the only organization that has concluded most barriers to use of broadband access now result from a variety of reasons unrelated to access availability. For that reason, it is seeking broadband stimulus funds to supply households with PCs, one of the major reasons people do not use broadband at home: they don't own computers.

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Intel, Dell Join Nonprofit To Bring Cheap Internet Svc To Poor

August 13, 2009
Dow Jones Newswire via The Wall Street Journal

By Fawn Johnson

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Intel Corp. (INTC), Dell Inc. (DELL), and Fujitsu Ltd. (FJTSY) are among the new partners with the nonprofit group Connected Nation to put computers and cheap Internet service into low-income homes, the parties announced Thursday.

The coalition of high-tech manufacturing companies and Connected Nation is on the verge of submitting a $24 million grant proposal to the government to cover some of the costs of the project.

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