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    Broadband internet isn't equally available to LA County's low-income residents, report says

    The pandemic proved how crucial it is to be connected to the internet. Without it, students couldn't learn online, residents had a harder time making COVID-19 vaccine appointments and loved ones found it more difficult to stay in touch. But not everyone in Los Angeles County has equal access to the kind of high-speed broadband that makes these everyday tasks doable. And low-income residents ...
    by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 2022 3 minutes
    A student at TLC Charter, an elementary school in Orange, California, draws clouds, when asked during an online class to visually describe the weather outside her home on April 28, 2020.

    The pandemic proved how crucial it is to be connected to the internet.

    Without it, students couldn't learn online, residents had a harder time making COVID-19 vaccine appointments and loved ones found it more difficult to stay in touch.

    But not everyone in Los Angeles County has equal access to the kind of high-speed broadband that makes these everyday tasks doable. And low-income residents often pay more for the same or worse service than their neighbors in higher-income areas, from the California Community Foundation

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