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"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet"--

Digital divide --- Poor --- Community information services --- Discrimination in municipal services --- History. --- Information services --- Government policy --- Race discrimination in municipal services --- Municipal services --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Economic conditions --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects