California's budget deficit could force reductions in broadband internet projects Gavin Newsom championed to close the digital divide.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Gov. Gavin Newsom’s newest budget proposal calls for $2 billion in cuts to public broadband projects meant to bring high-speed internet to all Californians and close the digital divide. . By combining the purchase of existing infrastructure and new construction, that project now includes more than 8,000 miles of fiber optic cable.
criticized state agencies for excluding historically marginalized communities in Oakland and Los Angeles“Now all of a sudden that $1.5 billion he committed to funding the rest of the projects, there’s no longer a guarantee basically,” she said. “That’s one of our concerns generally: Equitable access for low income Black and brown historically redlined communities.”
Essentially what we’re seeing is that communities that have been underserved and under resourced for decades are once again being told to wait and pushed to the back of the line, said Georgia Savage, deputy director of Oakland Undivided, a nonprofit formed during the COVID-19 pandemic to end the digital divide and member of the California Alliance for Digital Equity.
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