{"id":269688,"date":"2026-08-21T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269688\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:06:16","slug":"broadband-adoption-slipping-researchers-warn-pennsylvania-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269688\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Adoption Slipping, Researchers Warn Pennsylvania Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/tag\/digital-inclusion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Inclusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Cuts to federal benefits could push 233,000 households off broadband, researcher warns.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/author\/jericho\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/casper_bio-400x400.png\" alt=\"Jericho Casper\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PA-house-committee-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Broadband Adoption Slipping, Researchers Warn Pennsylvania Lawmakers\"\/><br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q823mspRREA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> of (right) John Horrigan, Ph.D., senior fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband &amp; Society, and (left) Christopher Ali, Ph.D., pioneers chair in telecommunications for Pennsylvania State University, testify before the Pa. House Communications &amp; Technology Committee in Indiana, Pa. on August 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digital Inclusion Cuts to federal benefits could push 233,000 households off broadband, researcher warns. Photo of (right) John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-269688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}