New Orleans With herculean efforts along with extensive field work and mega expenditures of dollars and political capital, www.healthcare.gov works better now to the degree that about 2 million people weathered the storm to sign up under the new Affordable Care Act with millions more expected hopefully before March 31st. I use the words “works better” …
Tag: digital divide
Why Deny the Poor Access to Telephone Service and the Internet?
Ocean Springs We can say with confidence and without fear of correction that the coming year will see yet more full scale battles in the war against the poor. Anyone can make that list. Certainly it starts with the headliners right now as extended unemployment benefits are being terminated, food stamps are still on the chopping …
Bring on the Trust Busters to Stop Comcast and Times-Warner Cable Monopoly!
New Orleans Simple fact: the Justice department cannot allow Comcast to buy Times-Warner cable operations. No way, no how! In fact given the level of untrammeled, anti-competitive monopoly already rampant in the cable industry, which is directly responsible for both widening the internet divide and slowing down internet speeds to globally uncompetitive and exorbitantly …