Can broadband investments boost the talent pool? – CIO Dive
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law in November, isn’t just about roads and bridges. It provides $65 billion towards broadband expansion, which could change the way people work in the future, and from where they work — especially rural areas.
Carri Bennet, partner at Womble Bond Dickinson and general counsel to the Rural Wireless Association, compares the bill to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, a Great Depression project that funded the installation of electrical distribution systems to rural areas across the U.S.
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