This is Dominic Pino filling in for Audrey Fahlberg filling in for Jim Geraghty, who is enjoying Alaska on the NRI cruise. Next week, you'll have me Monday through Wednesday, and then the Jolt will go back to Audrey. On the menu today: A follow-up on my February 15 Morning Jolt about web welfare, the $30-per-month internet-subsidy program that Congress ended by doing what it does best: nothing. Funding officially ran out on May 31, and we can now see how the industry has responded to the subsidies going away. The Metamorphosis of a Welfare Program The impossible has happened: A welfare program ended. Congress created a web-welfare program on an "emergency" basis during the Covid pandemic, and, in classic Washington form, politicians tried to make it permanent. They rebranded it the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and gave it billions in extra funding. The program provided subsidies of up to $30 per ... | |
| TOP STORIES | |
|
| NR PODCASTS: FEATURED EPISODE | |
|
|
FEATURED PHOTO GALLERY | |
|
| |
If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please safely unsubscribe.
Comments
Post a Comment