“We just got kind of riled up and we wrote a proposal, did interviews and press conferences. After all our research, we just felt happy to help and that fueled our advocacy.”
Last spring, whenever Kimberly Vasquez and her two younger sisters logged into their respective Zoom classes, the internet in their Baltimore townhouse would crash. Their teachers’ faces pixelated and screens froze.
On May 26, 2020, Kimberly Vasquez and other teenage activists announced demands to Comcast to provide adequate high speed internet to low-income families. The Vasquez’s experience wasn’t isolated to their home. Many neighborhood families with the Comcast Essentials package who relied on their internet for school and work during the pandemic, quickly realized their internet could not sustain the increased workload. Across the country, the increase in remote school and learning exposed a digital divide due to the growing income gap, according to theVasquez’s unreliable WiFi started to hinder her schoolwork.
. Seven percent of poor eighth-graders in the United States don’t have internet access, compared to only 1.6 percent of non-poor students.
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