Low-income San Franciscans scramble to deal with internet subsidy’s end

The end of the program means that “the most vulnerable people in our economy, in our community, are going to be left behind at an accelerating pace,” said Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund, a nonprofit established by the California Public Utilities Commission charged with helping get such citizens online. “We’re going to be right back into not just … a digital divide, but a digital cliff.”

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