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The Digital Equity Act tried to close the digital divide. Trump calls it racist and acts to end it
Read full article: The Digital Equity Act tried to close the digital divide. Trump calls it racist and acts to end itThough Trump called it racist, the words “race” or “racial” appear just twice in the law’s text: once, alongside “color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability,” in a passage stating that no groups should be excluded from funding, and later, in a list of covered populations, along with older adults, veterans, people with disabilities, English learners, people with low literacy levels and rural Americans.