Number of years the DOD has failed to satisfy a 1993 Congress mandate that all federal agencies be audited: 35 Amount of military spending that...
Percent of population making under $50,000 in 2014: 48 percent. Percent of those voting making under $50,000: 36 percent. Percent of population making over $100,000:...
1947-1979 change in real income of poorest 20 percent of population: 122 percent. Of richest 20 percent: 99 percent. Change of richest 1 percent: 39...
Number of U.S. states that mandate paid maternity leave: 4. Number of countries that do: 185. Maximum number of weeks of paid maternity leave in...
Pell grants, awarded solely on need, are the largest single source of non-loan assistance to postsecondary education. Two thirds of Pell recipients enroll in public...
If you’re looking for a resource that focuses on wireless connectivity, check out the MuniNetworks.org Wireless Page. Rather than an exhaustive list of every municipal wireless...
Maple syrup, the Green Mountains, and network neutrality. On February 15th, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed Executive Order No. 2-18, the Internet Neutrality in State Procurement,...
Last fall, the northern Minnesota community of Ely took up a feasibility study to determine the possibilities of better connectivity with publicly owned Internet infrastructure. They...
The city of Ammon, Idaho, has used its open access publicly owned network to create an environment that encourages competition for residents and businesses. In...
Monopolies are strangling competition and cutting off opportunity. In this feature for The Nation, we show how to stop them. … Read More
Stacy’s Mitchell’s cover feature for The Nation looks at how Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires,...
Rural communities seeking better broadband have options beyond big telecom. This past August, the residents of the Republican-leaning Michigan town of Lyndon Township overwhelmingly voted to raise...
As monopoly utilities merge and grow bigger, they wield more power. This commentary advises South Carolina regulators, legislators, and residents to be cautious of a...
When the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative (SLVREC) decided to invest in fiber for more efficient electrical operations, they also took the first step toward improving...
This video from Vox and the Climate Lab at UC-Berkeley is an interesting look at the over-packaging of items throughout our economy and how we...