Here's what is in the infrastructure bill that could get high-speed internet to everyone
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Melissa Roach pays $120 per month for internet at her home in Saint Louis County, Minnesota — and it is not always reliable. Amid the pandemic, her family had been scheduling time to be on the computer for it to work. And the best time to upload photos? The middle of the night. Her family's best solution for reliable internet is running a new line up the driveway. That cost: $8,000.
Millions of people across the country are, like Roach, struggling with a lack of access or unaffordable internet — a massive economic and educational obstacle.
"Some people may be able to afford it. For my family it's an incredible amount," Roach said earlier this year.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.