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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

At the time, the Federal government had just signed the welfare deform legislation, pushing millions of welfare recipients from welfare to work. The industry -- the federal government, and the state government specifically exclude domestic workers as classes of workers to be protected by labor rights legislation.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

Some rural areas, like the Missouri county mentioned by Kelvin Simmons, Commissioner of the Office of Administration, have "absolutely no broadband access," which keeps students from doing homework assignments that are placed on school websites. Simmons claimed it was "almost impossible to build a community" today without broadband access.