Closing the Digital and Economic Divides in Rural America

Brookings Institution | Policy research

Nicol Turner Lee | August 30, 2018

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America has a rural broadband problem.

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Digital exclusion comes with costs. Rural residents are at risk of being marginalized in an information-rich economy where digital transactions and commercial sharing services are becoming more relevant. Already facing diminished life chances, people with lower incomes, people of color, the elderly, and foreign-born migrants in rural areas run the risk of being on the wrong side of the digital divide that further exacerbates their economic, social, and political marginalization.

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