The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.

My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.

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      6 天前

      Poor people deserve bad customer service, too!

      why did you choose to add “too” to the end of the sentence, instead of writing “poor people too deserve …”?

      Is it a visual choice? Are you trying to balance "O"s as in oo………oo

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        You’re not wrong. People tend to tune me out when I speak that formally, and I made a decision a long time ago to always write how I speak.

        That being said, you should hear my corrected version of Land of Confusion.

        This is the world in which we live
        And these are the names you’ve given us