{"id":8669,"date":"2021-07-19T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:41:20","slug":"virginia-uses-relief-funds-to-boost-rural-broadband-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/virginia-uses-relief-funds-to-boost-rural-broadband-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Uses Relief Funds To Boost Rural Broadband Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, Virginia representatives and state officials announced plans to boost internet service access and availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plans call for Virginia to provide $700 million from the pandemic relief funds to boost broadband access in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this will undoubtedly be crucial to closing the digital divide for some of the state&#8217;s poorest, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said that the investments will be critical to the state meeting its goal of closing the digital divide by 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are in a good position, well poised to have broadband to everybody in the commonwealth of Virginia by 2024,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many residents in the region welcomed the news, hoping it will boost economic development, create more jobs and allow more residents to work from home.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/16\/1016838329\/virginia-shifts-700-million-in-relief-funds-to-boost-rural-broadband-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia representatives to invest relief funds to boost broadband access for rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}