More than half of the U.S. House supports extending funding for internet connectivity, but the effort was stymied.
Monserrat Ramirez Garcia, 12, uses a laptop while in a remote math class from her home in Oakland on April 23, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMattersMore than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.On April 30, a popular and widely used government program began the process of shutting down due to congressional inaction. With its demise, closing the digital divide becomes considerably more difficult.
That future has officially arrived. More than 23 million American households, about 45% of all those eligible nationwide, will no longer receive the full subsidies that previously helped them get online. Two-thirds of those households had “inconsistent or zero connectivity prior to ACP enrollment,” a recent Federal Communications Commission
The program is “helping people who did not previously have access to get online,” wrote John Horrigan, a leading researcher tracking connectivity trends, who noted that enrollment has been especially high in diverse, high-poverty areas. “In other words, the answer to the question of whether the ACP is closing the digital divide is a clear yes.
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