sponsored 'Rural Americans need access to quality high-speed broadband as quickly as possible.' SenateAgGOP Read JohnBoozman's article in WashTimes Infrastructure special section Infrastructure2023
Just ask any parent living in rural America about the challenge of schooling their children from home without internet access.
These challenges make it harder to stop an exodus that was already underway. Americans had already been leaving rural communities in large numbers for employment opportunities and the modern services and conveniences bigger metropolitan areas offer. In the past, we would talk about infrastructure in terms of the three “r’s” roads, rails and runways. Those days are gone. It is simply not enough anymore. While the three “r’s” certainly are vital to a region’s growth, infrastructure plans for the 21st century must also incorporate broadband internet access and improvements to water systems.
Similarly, many rural communities lack safe and reliable drinking and wastewater services. The cost to build, maintain and operate these facilities are very high, and small communities have more difficulty affording them due to lack of population density and lack of economies of scale. When functioning drinking water and wastewater facilities are scarce, a community’s chances of attracting new private investment are slim.
When it comes to rural infrastructure, the farm bill isn’t our only tool in the toolbox, but it is certainly a major one. By passing the farm bill, we can ensure the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development mission area can provide loans and grants that can essentially build a community from the ground up.
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