How New York is bringing families out of the digital dark
Clip: 4/25/2015 | 7m 38s
Hari Sreenivasan on New York City's attempt to bring people out of the digital dark.
There are more than 730,000 homes in New York City without broadband access. And because the Internet today is the gateway to everything from education to the economy, the city is trying to bring those families out of the digital dark. But Internet access requires more than a connection for cash-strapped families. It has to be affordable, too. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
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How New York is bringing families out of the digital dark
Clip: 4/25/2015 | 7m 38s
There are more than 730,000 homes in New York City without broadband access. And because the Internet today is the gateway to everything from education to the economy, the city is trying to bring those families out of the digital dark. But Internet access requires more than a connection for cash-strapped families. It has to be affordable, too. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
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