{"id":3269,"date":"2010-01-28T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2010-01-28T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:26:42","slug":"an-argument-for-free-high-speed-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/an-argument-for-free-high-speed-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"An Argument for Free High Speed Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy continues to remain weak and budgets tighten for public libraries, here is a study that should encourage any community of the value of high speed internet access via their libraries:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenix-center.org\/pcpp\/PCPP39Final.pdf\"><strong>Internet Use and Job Search <\/strong>(pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a nutshell, the rate of &#8220;discouragement&#8221; (giving up hope for finding work) is reduced by 50% when job seekers have high speed internet access, and is reduced by 30% when job seekers have access to dial-up internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This provides a justification for providing high speed access to the community, in that it will encourage not only a higher rate of employment, but also less desperation in those still seeking employment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To take this one step further, I would suggest that providing training and support (perhaps through volunteers among job seekers) might improve a community&#8217;s results beyond the scope of the study.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/npr_all_tech_considered_blog_study_finds_job_seekers_motivated_highspeed_internet\">LISNews<\/a>, who found it via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2010\/01\/jobseekers_motivated_by_high_s.html\">NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy continues to remain weak and budgets tighten for public libraries, here is a study that should encourage any community of the value of high speed internet access via their libraries: Internet Use and Job Search (pdf) In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/an-argument-for-free-high-speed-internet.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2948,2952,2971],"tags":[5137,5135,5140,4364,3065,5044,5142,5139,5136,4378,5138,5141],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-news","category-online-services","category-training","tag-broadband-internet-access","tag-businessfinance","tag-communication","tag-economy","tag-high-speed-internet-access","tag-internet","tag-job-search","tag-labor","tag-social-issues","tag-technology","tag-telecommunications","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-QJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}