Experts say cancellation of Digital Equity Act funding threatens to entrench the digital divide just as AI ushers in a disruptive era of technological change.

When the Affordable Connectivity Program ended, the question for most people was not whether to keep service but how to keep it while juggling other household needs.

The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.

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Maine's members of Congress argue that terminating the Digital Equity Act and related grants 'will have an outsized impact on Maine families, small businesses, and communities.'

President Donald Trump said that the Digital Equity Act is a “handout based on race” and illegal. Congress approved the act to expand broadband access to many groups, not just racial minorities.

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society statement on the announcement that the Trump administration will end Digital Equity Act programs

Dr. Revati Prasad is the new Executive Director of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Latest cohort of researchers supported by Marjorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund

A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."