U.S. lags in broadband impede economy - NAM
May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s 42 million low-income residents will only marginally participate in a “knowledge economy” unless Internet access to job training skills is increased, according to Dr. Eileen Applebaum, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University.
At a symposium entitled “Economic Empowerment for Low-Income Workers Through Broadband Training,” Applebaum joined other panelists who touted the necessity of an aggressive expansion of U.S. broadband capacity. The United States currently ranks fifteenth in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s 42 million low-income residents will only marginally participate in a “knowledge economy” unless Internet access to job training skills is increased, according to Dr. Eileen Applebaum, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University.
At a symposium entitled “Economic Empowerment for Low-Income Workers Through Broadband Training,” Applebaum joined other panelists who touted the necessity of an aggressive expansion of U.S. broadband capacity. The United States currently ranks fifteenth in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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