BRINGING affordable and high-speed internet service to every American would be equivalent to the federal government’s rural electrification project of the 1930s, according to President Joe Biden.
“It set the stage for a massive, sustained economic boom that would follow World War Two,” Biden, in Wisconsin, said Tuesday of the New Deal policy of the Franklin Roosevelt presidency.
Broadband internet “isn’t a luxury. It’s now a necessity, like water and electricity,” the president remarked in his latest speech outside Washington to push for congressional passage of a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.The package is intended to boost blue-collar employment by creating “good paying jobs, repairing our roads and our bridges,” said Biden at the Municipal Transit Utility in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The White House emphasizes that 90% of the jobs generated by the infrastructure spending could go to workers without college degrees.
The compromise legislative package was negotiated last week with
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