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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    21 hours ago

    how much subsidies has the taxpayer provided to these parasites?

    thought you were talking about poor people at first lol

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      21 hours ago

      i have never seen term parasite applied to the poors on lemmy tbh

      reddit investment, landlord and other clown gathering location sure but on lemmy, bootlickers get checked