Americans’ main concern today isn't internet speed, as Preisdent Joe Biden seems to think, but their inability to afford necessities such as food and housing. Pictured: President Biden speaks about his economic agenda and recent infrastructure funding in Superior, Wis., on Jan. 24, 2024. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
President Joe Biden recently took to a stage in North Carolina to tout his economic agenda, which includes bringing high-speed internet to rural America. But that’s hardly what Americans struggling with a cost-of-living crisis need to hear.
E.J. Antoni, PhD, is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
