<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Broadband access is one of three categories covered in this Brookings survey:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h2 style="border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(76, 76, 76); text-transform: uppercase; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20.25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">3. EXPANDING ACCESS TO BROADBAND</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" class="">Our colleagues Adie Tomer, Elizabeth Kneebone, and Ranjitha Shivaram put it well <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/signs-of-digital-distress-mapping-broadband-availability/" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(220, 42, 42); text-decoration: none; box-sizing: inherit;" class="">when they wrote</a>, “broadband…is the essential infrastructure for unlocking the internet’s economic benefits.” According to <a href="https://www.burning-glass.com/about/faq/" class="js-external-link" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(220, 42, 42); text-decoration: none; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="icon-external-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.125em 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; align-items: center; display: inline-flex; height: 0.875em; justify-content: center; width: 0.875em; transition: background-color 125ms linear 0s, opacity 125ms linear 0s;"><svg><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-action-external-link"><svg viewBox="0 0 12 12" id="icon-action-external-link" width="100%" height="100%"><g fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" opacity=".75"><path d="M2 2h3v1H3v6h6V7h1v3H2z"></path><path d="M6.211 2H10v3.789L8.579 4.368 6.447 6.5 5.5 5.553l2.132-2.132z"></path></g></svg></use></svg></span>Burning Glass Technologies</a>, approximately 85 percent of jobs are now posted online—meaning that job seekers without regular access to the internet are at a severe disadvantage. Governors are responding: By our count, at least 18 governors highlighted substantial new investments to help residents access broadband. This compares to <a href="http://www.governing.com/blogs/by-the-numbers/gov-state-of-the-state-speeches-summary.html" class="js-external-link" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(220, 42, 42); text-decoration: none; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="icon-external-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.125em 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; align-items: center; display: inline-flex; height: 0.875em; justify-content: center; width: 0.875em; transition: background-color 125ms linear 0s, opacity 125ms linear 0s;"><svg><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-action-external-link"><svg viewBox="0 0 12 12" id="icon-action-external-link" width="100%" height="100%"><g fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" opacity=".75"><path d="M2 2h3v1H3v6h6V7h1v3H2z"></path><path d="M6.211 2H10v3.789L8.579 4.368 6.447 6.5 5.5 5.553l2.132-2.132z"></path></g></svg></use></svg></span>just six governors who mentioned broadband</a> in 2013.</p><blockquote class="pullquote" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 3px 0px 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.25; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 1em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; color: rgb(220, 42, 42); display: inline-block; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">By our count, at least 18 governors highlighted substantial new investments to help residents access broadband, compared to just six governors who mentioned broadband in 2013.</div></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" class=""></span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" class="">Several governors’ statements on broadband investments stood out. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Missouri Governor Mike Parson</span> touted an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/08/28/verizon-others-win-fcc-auction-bring-broadband-1-7-million-rural-americans/1119091002/" class="js-external-link" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(220, 42, 42); text-decoration: none; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="icon-external-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.125em 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; align-items: center; display: inline-flex; height: 0.875em; justify-content: center; width: 0.875em; transition: background-color 125ms linear 0s, opacity 125ms linear 0s;"><svg><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-action-external-link"><svg viewBox="0 0 12 12" id="icon-action-external-link" width="100%" height="100%"><g fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" opacity=".75"><path d="M2 2h3v1H3v6h6V7h1v3H2z"></path><path d="M6.211 2H10v3.789L8.579 4.368 6.447 6.5 5.5 5.553l2.132-2.132z"></path></g></svg></use></svg></span>incoming $255 million federal investment</a> from the FCC, supported by $5 million in state funds, to expand the state’s broadband networks. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem</span> outlined a detailed plan for closing broadband gaps in her state, including through the deployment of 5G technology. And <span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont </span>also signaled his embrace of 5G as part of a plan to “invest wisely in [Connecticut’s] urban centers” in order to “attract millennials, top talent, and leading companies.” Governors from both political parties and in every region of the country expressed support for broadband investment.</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/03/12/three-ways-governors-are-investing-in-innovation/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=70794949" class="">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/03/12/three-ways-governors-are-investing-in-innovation/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan Policy Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=70794949</a>
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