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Pandemic-era broadband access is receding — rural kids are paying the price
As broadband access slips away from rural farming communities, new research shows particular harms to the young.
He’s spent the last few years working to convert an old opera house in Camden, Indiana, into a tech hub, coworking space, and venue, where he hopes to foster the growth of students and entrepreneurs like himself through internships and access to high-speed internet. “That’s definitely going to be affecting the already significant decline [in high-speed internet access] that we found among adolescents, especially in rural areas,” said Gabriel Hales, a research assistant at Michigan State and co-author of the study. Accessing the internet during the pandemic, even just to play video games or scroll social media, “was incredibly important to make sure that these adolescents kept up that level of well-being and did not feel as isolated,” said Hales.
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