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Discussion Paper
Digital Access Deficiencies in Rural Health Care Deserts: Identifying a Role for Telehealth
Telehealth, defined as digital access to health care services, has become increasingly used by American patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that many rural communities in the United States face lower access to health care relative to urban communities, telehealth offers a potential opportunity to support health care access in these underserved areas. In particular, telehealth can partly help offset fewer hospitals and health care professionals per capita in rural areas compared to their metropolitan counterparts. However, the digital divide in access to broadband and digital devices ...
Speech
My Top Takeaways From District Dialogues
We spent the spring talking to educators, administrators, researchers and policymakers about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected students and what we can do to help close the gaps. We learned a lot — and it wasn’t always what we were expecting.
Speech
Small Towns Making It Work
Next week is the Richmond Fed's Rural America Week. It's the third year in a row we're bringing together funders and community organizations, exploring solutions to gaps in educational attainment, and sharing some of the many success stories we've heard in rural communities throughout the Richmond Fed's district.The Richmond Fed has an ongoing commitment to understanding the unique challenges and opportunities faced by rural areas. Every month, I visit three to five small towns in our district (socially distanced) to meet with business and community leaders. While I've seen small towns ...
Working Paper
Every Little Bit Counts: The Impact of High-speed Internet on the Transition to College
This paper investigates the effects of high-speed Internet on students' college application decisions. We link the diffusion of zip code-level residential broadband Internet to millions of PSAT and SAT takers' college testing and application outcomes and find that students with access to high-speed Internet in their junior year of high school perform better on the SAT and apply to a higher number and more expansive set of colleges. Effects appear to be concentrated among higher-SES students, indicating that while, on average, high-speed Internet improved students' postsecondary outcomes, it ...
Journal Article
Upfront: New from the Richmond Fed's Regional Matters Blog
New from the Richmond Fed’s Regional Matters blog
Funding to address broadband gaps in the Eleventh District
This article examines Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act funding distribution in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico.
Discussion Paper
Rural Spotlight: Bringing Broadband to Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Speech
Moving the Needle in Smaller Towns
Demographic and geographic differences contribute to different labor market outcomes in smaller towns versus urban areas.Although the solutions will vary from place to place, research suggests four core themes if policymakers want to move the needle in smaller communities:Education: Providing students with the information and preparation they need to choose, and succeed along, the postsecondary path that’s best for them. This preparation begins in early childhood.Connection to jobs: Facilitating workers’ access to good jobs. Community colleges can play a critical role in connecting ...