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F.C.C. Chief Seeks Broadband Plan to Aid the Poor
May 28, 2015/
For 30 years, the federal government has helped millions of low-income Americans pay their phone bills, saying that telephone service is critical to summoning medical help, seeking work and, ultimately, climbing out of poverty. Now, the nation’s top communications regulator will propose offering those same people subsidized access to broadband Internet.
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
