Exploring the feasibility of rural broadband cooperatives in the United States: The new New Deal?

Schmit, Todd M.; Severson, Roberta M.

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102114

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“…Federal investment, however, is not necessarily essential to incent infrastructure investment. Research suggests lower-cost ways to increase infrastructure include reducing municipal broadband provision restrictions ( Whitacre and Gallardo, 2020 ), incentivizing the establishment of broadband cooperatives ( Schmit and Severson, 2021 ), and establishing public-private partnerships and community-led initiatives ( Lattemann, Stieglitz, Kupke, & Schneider, 2009 ). Further, Whitacre and Gallardo (2020) report that as of 2018, 18 states had broadband expansion spending programs and 25 states had broadband directors – these states may be better prepared to utilize the Federal funds due to their existing programmatic infrastructure.…”

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confidence: 99%

Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19

Isley

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2022

Telecommunications Policy

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Amidst COVID-19-related stay-at-home orders, the economy moved largely online and broadband internet became more important than ever. This paper explores the relationship between broadband and employment rates during April and May 2020 in rural U.S. counties. We use two broadband dimensions: infrastructure availability rates and household adoption rates. We use a two-stage least squares approach to address endogeneity and control for socioeconomic, demographic, and pandemic-related factors. Results show broadband availability and wired broadband adoption both had significant, positive impacts on the employment rate. Our findings suggest both broadband adoption and availability may be associated with economic benefits in rural America.

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Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19

Isley

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2022

Telecommunications Policy

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“…The infrastructure needs went further, as schools needed to deliver food to children who are dependent on breakfast and lunch. Rural poverty in some New York districts is close to 50%, and families are stretched very precariously without the school food program (Schmit & Severson, 2021). Many of these concerns echo what past reform attempts have cited as the weaknesses of rural schools (Wiles, 1994).…”

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Reimaging Local Control, Local Democracy, and Local Engagement in Education: How Rural Education Policy in a Metro Centric State Alienated Its Residents

Jakubowski

2022

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This paper examines two case studies as examples of how an Urbannormative State policy implementation for education reform in rural areas altered and de established trust in state government reforms. By specifically examining two rural community’s efforts to ensure local control in the face of state policy implementation practices, the paper finds that rural areas have over 70 years of concrete evidence that their values are often subjugated to state reform plans which stress efficiency and effectiveness. Using archival evidence, these case studies present under studied, and little-known events which have shaped relationships between the State and its residents. The paper finishes with a re-evaluation of implementation theory and posits an updated theory that includes local stakeholders influences beyond the previous model of focus on government officials.

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“…European Union (EU) and the United States (US) rural development policy has many common goals, but it differs slightly in the mechanisms and priorities for implementation, determining the role of agricultural production in rural development (Schmit and Severson, 2021). The main areas of measures to support rural development in the US are: (1) economic development of rural areas, stimulating the creation and development of business; (2) infrastructure development; (3) fight against poverty (Deller and Whitacre, 2019).…”

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Institutionalization of State Support and Development of Sectoral Entrepreneurship of Rural Areas

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Prystеmskyi

Chernenko³

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The article presents the implementation of the results of supporting sectoral entrepreneurship in rural areas as a multifunctional and multi-channel process of formation, attraction, and use of financial resources provided by the rules of the institutional environment of state policy. A methodical approach to the integrated assessment of indicators of the target direction of the involved financial resources of the state and their impact on the development of sectoral entrepreneurship in rural areas is presented. It is proved that the specific criteria that determine the scenarios of consolidation of tax revenues to local rural budgets are minimization of discretion, compensation, and compromise, budget adequacy, complementarities, as well as the sequence of changes in parameters and flexibility of the tax system which allows responding quickly to changes in the institutional environment of state support of sectoral entrepreneurship. Indicators of state support for risk insurance of sectoral entrepreneurship, volumes of accumulated revenues of local budgets in decentralized rural areas of Ukraine are analyzed. A cognitive model is proposed. It determines the hypothetical ability of the multifactorial system of the institutional environment of state policy to influence the level of financial capacity of sectoral enterprises, taking into account the tax burden and targeted use of state financial resources for production, processing, and storage of agricultural products as well as to update the technological process

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Exploring the feasibility of rural broadband cooperatives in the United States: The new New Deal?

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19

Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19

Reimaging Local Control, Local Democracy, and Local Engagement in Education: How Rural Education Policy in a Metro Centric State Alienated Its Residents

Institutionalization of State Support and Development of Sectoral Entrepreneurship of Rural Areas

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