President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.
He will go to the Raleigh-Durham area in the critical battleground state to make the announcement, alongside Gov. Roy Cooper (D). The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package Biden signed into law in 2021, and aims to connect an additional 16,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.
The investment, according to a fact sheet from the White House, will also create jobs in manufacturing and construction to produce “Made-in-America fiber-optic cable that will build out internet infrastructure across the country.”
I think this will be the third time, but maybe the fourth? I’m not sure why it’s expected to work this time. Maybe Biden even knows that but just wants the optics? I don’t know what would be worse honestly.
And yeah, if we’re subsidizing this states internet bills…
The providers are just going to raise the price by that much in a year or two anyways.