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USDA’s broadband program will help rural Americans
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall says the USDA’s $600 million grant and loan program couldn’t have come at a better time.
He says the USDA is bringing rural Americans one step closer to high-speed communications equality with the rest of the country.
Purdue University Ag Economist Wally Tyner says internet connectivity must continue to be approached like rural electrification was in the last century.
“It’s transformative- it’s changes everything,” he says. “When you have rural broadband, your kids can get better educations, they can have more personal instruction, and they can get instruction that’s related to the world we’re going to be living in, and the kinds of jobs that are going to be out there in the future.”
Projects funded through the USDA initiative must serve communities with fewer than 20,000 people with no broadband service, or service slower than 10 megabits per second.
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