Floridians can’t afford to waste the broadband dollars Congress will send our way

Floridians need to get ready for the millions of broadband dollars that Congress is about to send.

The latest draft of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has $65 billion targeted for broadband development. It is unknown how much of this will come to Florida. But if we aren’t ready to manage the money wisely, we’ll likely have a repeat of 2009 when Congress spent billions of dollars, ostensibly for broadband, and then had nothing to show for it.

Read Dr. Jamison’s complete blog post at AEI.