Capital B News Highlights Joint Center Broadband in the Black Rural South Research

Capital B News highlighted the Joint Center’s report, Affordability & Availability: Expanding Broadband in the Black Rural South, that discusses the potential for broadband to increase economic, educational, and health care opportunities in the Black Rural South—152 rural counties with populations that are at least 35 percent.

Capital B News notes, “For decades, millions of Americans have been forced to go without internet or pay for subpar service, which thwarts opportunities to participate and thrive in today’s society, especially for Black communities in the rural South, where the digital divide is the greatest. In this region, about 38 [percent] of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than white people in the same region and the national average, a 2021 report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found.”

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