Three Years and $1.5 Billion Later: Michigan’s “Internet for All Program” Won’t Make a Single Connection Until 2025
Posted on September 20, 2024 by Victor Skinner
Three years after Congress approved a $42 billion effort to expand internet access across the country, not a single household in Michigan or elsewhere has benefited from those public tax dollars.
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act resulted in a $1.5 billion allocation for Michigan to expand internet access to underserved, mostly rural communities, and the state created a Michigan High-Speed Internet Office (MIHI) to dole out the funding.
In a report last month, the MIHI explained how bureaucratic procedures continue to prevent officials in Michigan from moving forward on the program Gov. Gretchen Whitmer promised will expand access to “over 200,000 Michiganders … across the state,” the Mackinac Center for Public Policy reports.
https://thepopulisttimes.com/three-years-and-1-5-billion-later-michigans-internet-for-all-program-wont-make-a-single-connection-until-2025/
