{"id":625497,"date":"2021-08-09T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=625497"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:21:48","slug":"bidens-infrastructure-bill-rewards-states-with-more-immigrants-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-infrastructure-bill-rewards-states-with-more-immigrants-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Bill Rewards States With More Immigrants: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-infrastructure-bill-rewards-states-with-more-immigrants-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=625497&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-14-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The infrastructure bill pushed by President Biden and Senate Democrats apparently rewards states with more immigrants, offering them federal money based on the number of \u201ccovered populations\u201d proportional to the total number of people of \u201ccovered populations\u201d in all eligible states.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the bill, the Digital Equity Act would permit the Department of Commerce to create a grant program funding broadband expansion. \u201c25 percent of the total grant amount shall be based on the number of individuals in the eligible State who are members of covered populations in proportion to the total number of individuals in all eligible States who are members of covered populations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/08\/infrastructure-bill-rewards-blue-states-driving-up-immigration-levels-u-s\/\">Breitbart<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart added, \u201cThose considered part of the&nbsp;\u2018covered populations\u2019&nbsp;that a state\u2019s grant money would be tied to \u2014 depending on how large this group is \u2014 newly arrived immigrants to the U.S. who speak little-to-no English.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/s1167\/BILLS-116s1167is.pdf\"> Digital Equity Act<\/a> describes \u201ccovered populations\u201d in this way: \u201cindividuals who live in covered households; aging individuals; incarcerated individuals, other than individuals who are incarcerated in a federal correctional facility; veterans; individuals with disabilities; individuals with a language barrier, including individuals who\u2014 are English learners; have low levels of literacy; individuals who are members of a racial or ethnic minority group; and individuals who primarily reside in a rural area.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Equity Act adds, \u201cA State that wishes to be awarded a grant under subsection (d) shall develop a State Digital Equity Plan for the State, which shall include\u2014 the identification of the barriers to digital equity faced by covered populations in the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRed states and counties such as North Dakota, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Nebraska, Kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky would lose out on such funds to expand broadband potentially because none have significant foreign-born populations,\u201d Breitbart pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalinclusion.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/ndia-recommends-the-senate-triple-the-digital-equity-act-allocation-in-the-infrastructure-bill\/#\">National Digital Inclusion Alliance<\/a> is urging allocations for the Digital Equity Fund to be tripled, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10.426666666667\">\n<p><em>The original bill totaled $1.25 billion for implementing the Digital Equity Act but should be increased to $5 billion to support local and state planning and programs. Without trusted local and state intervention, broadband adoption rates will remain low. As outlined in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1848\">LIFT America Act<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1783\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22internet+for+all%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1&amp;s=1\">Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act<\/a>, at a minimum, $15 billion should be dedicated to continuing the Emergency Broadband Benefit program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/infrastructure-bills-boost-to-economy-is-likely-to-be-limited-11628416802?mod=hp_major_pos3\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the infrastructure bill\u2019s capacity to increase economic growth will not have a salutary effect for years:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>The short-term boost to growth will be relatively limited for two reasons, economists say. For one, the bill represents just $550 billion in new spending\u2014compared with nearly $6 trillion that Congress has approved in the past year-and-a-half to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. Second, the infrastructure spending will take place over five to 10 years starting in 2022, a longer timeline than pandemic-era initiatives like stimulus checks, extra unemployment benefits and small-business support programs. That will make its direct effects on employment and demand less noticeable. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The CBO expects economic growth to slow from 7.4% in 2021, a year of rapid post-Covid recovery, to 3.1% in 2022 and 1.1% in 2023, as measured from the end of the fourth quarter to the same period the year before. The projections don\u2019t include possible effects of the infrastructure bill.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infrastructure bill pushed by President Biden and Senate Democrats apparently rewards states with more immigrants, offering them federal money based on the number of \u201ccovered populations\u201d proportional to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}