Calling high-speed Internet a “basic necessity,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced $175 million in Internet funding for historically Black colleges and universities.
Harris told a crowd Monday at Benedict College in South Carolina that affordable, high-speed Internet is “an essential part of everyday, modern life,” as she announced funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve Internet access at 61 HBCUs. Benedict College will receive close to $3 million.
“In America, in the 21st century, every person, no matter where they live and no matter how much they earn, should have high-speed Internet,” Harris said.
“Everyday in communities across our nation, students who have affordable access use the Internet to do their homework. Parents use the Internet to order groceries. Seniors use the Internet to see a doctor without having to leave home. And small-business owners use the Internet to buy inventory, to manage the payroll, even to run their cash register,” Harris said.
“And, yet, more than 24 million American households still do not have Internet access, including 137,000 families right here in South Carolina, either because they cannot afford the cost of high-speed Internet or because they live in a community, often a rural community, where high-speed Internet is just not available,” Harris added.
“I have heard so many stories about what it means when folks don’t have Internet. Students who have to sit in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant just to be able to submit their homework on public Wi-Fi,” Harris said, before touting the administration’s $65 billion plan through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to put high-speed Internet in every home.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden said the administration already had added “16 million more households with affordable Internet.”
And Harris said the plan already is adding jobs.
“Jobs for electric workers who install the fiber-optic cables. Jobs for technicians who will repair and replace those lines for years to come,” she said.
During Monday’s speech, Harris applauded Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., assistant minority leader who spoke before the vice president, for writing the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act to help connect every household in the country with “affordable and accessible high-speed Internet.”
“He is a national leader on so many issues — on the issues of poverty and civil rights and voting,” Harris said about Clyburn. “And, of course, a leader on the issue that brings us here together today: high-speed Internet.”
Harris also applauded the administration’s work to make the Internet more affordable through the Affordable Connectivity Program that gives “more than 16 million working families a $30 discount on their Internet bill.”
“And because we worked with Internet service providers to make sure they offer plans for $30 or less per month, with a $30 discount, a majority of these households can access Internet for zero dollars a month,” Harris said.
The program also allows a one-time discount of up to $100 for families to purchase a computer.
“We know when we connect folks with high-speed Internet, we connect them with opportunity — the opportunity to get an education, to train for a new career, to build a business and to see a doctor,” Harris said.
“We give people the power to build — for our collective benefit — healthier, happier and more prosperous lives for themselves and for the people they love.”
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She is nothing but a racist. How about helping all. I got my internet thru AT&T. They used my old home phone line. Most if not all homes in rural South Carolina has these home phones. So they can get the internet if they wanted it. But they want free. But what is more important is the electric grid. We are going all electric Including cars We need to improve the grid for all. How many electric blackouts were there last year ??? But free internet is more important
If you haven’t figured it out yet the Black. Muslim, Treasonous, Racist Barack PinocchiObama is one of the people running this disgraceful woke, No Joe Biden administration. There is no EQUALITY in the U.S. under this woke Democrat ruled government. Blacks have been put on pedestals by the Democrats, bowed down to and have been given free offerings, forced paid for by the the taxpayers.
Biden’s Completely Incompetent Team Praises Itself On Diversity.
Diverse but incompetent!
When diversity and inclusion take the place of merit, hard work, and talent, bad things will happen. The Biden administration is a textbook example of how NOT to build an organization.
AND where are all the cries of how this is VIOLATING THE Equality clause of the 14th amendment??
Democrat, socialist/ Communist, party President, joe Biden said it so well when he said, ” They’re going to put you all back in chines- I wonder if he was referring to the democrat, socialist/ communist, party when he said that was going to keep all black people on the ranch by providing more free stuff to them- Blacks only, how intolerant, how racist.!
i pay for my internet, but then, I’m white. I pay for EVERYTHING.
AND via taxes, you pay for everyone elses too!
Winston Churchill once said,” Great Quotes The Quote by Winston Churchill on Capitalism and Socialism: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Winston Churchill on capitalism and socialism. Margret Thatcher,” Socialism is find until you run out of other peoples Money, to paraphrase her.
I suppose that is equality—not racism.
In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
OBVIOUSLY that law only applies when its NOT WHITES..