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ROANEnet Receives Funding from Comcast for Local Lift Zone Initiative

(Harriman, Tenn.) November 1, 2021 — ROANEnet announced this week that it has received $2,500 from Comcast to provide education and digital literacy classes at their Comcast Wifi-powered “Lift Zone.” Earlier this year ROANEnet launched the first Comcast “Lift Zone” community center in Roane County. A Lift Zone offers access to free unlimited high-speed internet and computers for those who,…

Household Pulse Survey: Measuring Social and Economic Impacts during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Updated April 23 at 5:28 p.m. ET Over the next three months, you may see emails from an unusual source — the U.S. Census Bureau. While the federal government’s largest statistical agency scrambles to salvage the constitutionally mandated 2020 census, it’s also rolling out a $1.2 million experiment called the “Household Pulse Survey” to try to measure how the coronavirus pandemic…