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“With investments in research and development to spur advances in … clean energy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, 5G, and high-speed rail … A Biden administration will join together with our Democratic allies to develop secure, private sector-led 5G networks, leaving no community- rural or low-income – behind.”³²

--Democratic Party Platform, 2020

• Biden will invest $20 billion in rural broadband infrastructure and ensure that the work of installing broadband will provide high-paying jobs with benefits³³
• Democrats will require that publicly funded broadband infrastructure projects “adhere to policies that support good jobs and include strong protections for workers’ right to organize³⁴
• Biden will expand broadband, or wireless broadband via 5G, to every American; universal broadband is long overdue and critical to broadly shared economic success³⁵

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32 https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-21-DRAFT-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf

33 https://joebiden.com/infrastructure/

34 https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-21-DRAFT-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf

35 https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/