by Bill Callahan | May 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The three federal agencies that oversee U.S. banks and savings institutions have adopted special Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) guidelines for the COVID-19 emergency period which, among other things, allow regulated lenders to seek CRA credit for “Loans,...
by Bill Callahan | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal agency that oversees national banks and savings associations, has just added support for community digital inclusion programs to its official list of “qualified activities” that could help a regulated...
by Bill Callahan | May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The new, three trillion dollar COVID-19 relief proposal (the “HEROES act”) unveiled yesterday by Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives includes $8.8 billion to fund an Emergency Broadband Benefit for consumers who are eligible for Lifeline phone...
by Bill Callahan | May 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
Democratic Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (NJ), yesterday announced the outline of a “Plan to Connect All Americans to Affordable Broadband...
by Bill Callahan | Apr 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance today joined 216 other public interest, government, industry, civil rights, rural advocacy, and academic groups — alongside schools and libraries — in a letter to Congressional leaders calling for forthcoming...
by Bill Callahan | Apr 9, 2020 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
NDIA has submitted comments to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), asking the agency to include digital inclusion programs among the “community support services” for which a bank’s financial support can bolster...
